The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler, 2nd Edition
- 12h 53m
- Chris Eagle
- No Starch Press
- 2011
No source code? No problem. With IDA Pro, the interactive disassembler, 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, you'll learn how to turn that mountain of mnemonics into something you can actually use.
Hailed by the creator of IDA Pro as "profound, comprehensive, and accurate," the second edition of The IDA Pro Book covers everything from the very first steps to advanced automation techniques. you'll find complete coverage of IDA's new Qt-based user interface, as well as increased coverage of the IDA debugger, the Bochs debugger, and IDA scripting (especially using IDAPython). But because humans are still smarter than computers, you'll even learn how to use IDA's latest interactive and scriptable interfaces to your advantage.
Save time and effort as you learn to:
- Navigate, comment, and modify disassembly
- Identify known library routines, so you can focus your analysis on other areas of the code
- Use code graphing to quickly make sense of cross references and function calls
- Extend IDA to support new processors and filetypes using the SDK
- Explore popular plug-ins that make writing IDA scripts easier, allow collaborative reverse engineering, and much more
- Use IDA's built-in debugger to tackle hostile and obfuscated code
Whether you're analyzing malware, conducting vulnerability research, or reverse engineering software, a mastery of IDA is crucial to your success. Take your skills to the next level with this 2nd edition of The IDA Pro Book.
About the Author
Chris Eagle is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He is the author of many IDA plug-ins, co-author of Gray Hat Hacking, and has spoken at numerous security conferences, including Black Hat, Defcon, ToorCon, and ShmooCon.
In this Book
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The IDA Pro Book―The Unofficial Guide to the World’s Most Popular Disassembler, 2nd Edition
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Introduction to Disassembly
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Reversing and Disassembly Tools
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IDA Pro Background
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Getting Started with IDA
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IDA Data Displays
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Disassembly Navigation
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Disassembly Manipulation
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Datatypes and Data Structures
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Cross-References and Graphing
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The Many Faces of IDA
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Customizing IDA
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Library Recognition Using FLIRT Signatures
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Extending IDA’s Knowledge
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Patching Binaries and Other IDA Limitations
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IDA Scripting
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The IDA Software Development Kit
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The IDA Plug-in Architecture
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Binary Files and IDA Loader Modules
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IDA Processor Modules
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Compiler Personalities
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Obfuscated Code Analysis
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Vulnerability Analysis
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Real-World IDA Plug-ins
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The IDA Debugger
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Disassembler/Debugger Integration
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Additional Debugger Features
