IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler [Pehme köide]

A guide to IDA Pro covers a variety of reverse engineering challenges including such topics as disassembly manipulation, graphing, using cross references, scripting, and loader modules. Eagle (US Naval Postgraduate School) offers this guide to the IDA Pro disassembly software, which highlights how this application can be used without having to write large amounts of code. Designed for both novice and advanced programmers, this book shows how the automation levels of IDA Pro are uncommon for disassemblers, and how the flexibility of the program saves users time and money. A section is devoted to plug-in options that make IDA Pros features even easier when analyzing unknown software architectures or conducting vulnerability studies of security systems. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) IDA Pro is the de facto standard for the analysis of hostile code and vulnerability research, and the tool that programmers around the world use to pick apart compiled software to see how it works. Eagle provides a top-down overview of IDA Pro and its potential uses in the software reverse-engineering field. No source code? No problem. With IDA Pro, you live in a source code-optional world. IDA can automatically analyze the millions of opcodes that make up an executable and present you with a disassembly. But at that point, your work is just beginning. With The IDA Pro Book, youll learn how to turn that mountain of mnemonics into something you can actually use. Hailed by the creator of IDA Pro as the long-awaited and information-packed guide to IDA, The IDA Pro Book covers everything from the very first steps to advanced automation techniques. While other disassemblers slow your analysis with inflexibility, IDA invites you to customize its output for improved readability and usefulness. Youll save time and effort as you learn to: Identify known library routines, so you can focus your analysis on other areas of the code Extend IDA to support new processors and filetypes, making disassembly possible for new or obscure architectures Explore popular plug-ins that make writing IDA scripts easier, allow collaborative reverse engineering, and much more Utilize IDAs built-in debugger to tackle obfuscated code that would defeat a stand-alone disassembler Youll still need serious assembly skills to tackle the toughest executables, but IDA makes things a lot easier. Whether youre analyzing the software on a black box or conducting hard-core vulnerability research, a mastery of IDA Pro is crucial to your success. Take your skills to the next level with The IDA Pro Book,