Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hackers Handbook, 3rd Edition, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 22Advanced Reverse Engineering

In the previous chapter, we took a look at the basics of reverse engineering source code and binary files. Conducting reverse engineering with full access to the way in which an application works (regardless of whether this is a source view or a binary view) is called white box testing. In this chapter, we take a look at alternative methodologies, often termed black box testing and gray box testing; both require running the application that we are analyzing. In black box testing, you know no details of the inner workings of the application, whereas in gray box testing, you combine white box and black box techniques and, for example, run the application under the control of a debugger. The intent of these ...