Description
The IDA Pro Book provides a top-down overview of IDA Pro and its potential uses in the software reverse engineering field. After a thorough introduction to the origins and basic operation of IDA Pro, the book goes into depth on how to use IDA Pro. Author Chris Eagle, a recognized expert in the field, covers a variety of real-world reverse engineering challenges and offers strategies to deal with them, such as disassembly manipulation, graphing, and effective use of cross references.
Full Description
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,
you'll 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. You'll 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 IDA's built-in debugger to tackle obfuscated code that would defeat a stand-alone disassembler
You'll still need serious assembly skills to tackle the
toughest executables, but IDA makes things a lot easier.
Whether you're 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.
