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Re: Reverse engineering course

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Post by jlevers »

z3phyr wrote: post #25
jlevers wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks amazing, thank you! A few posts up, melvinroest suggested starting a study group for the (Windows-based) course in the original post -- would anyone be interested in doing the same for this Linux-based course?

I am all in to form a peer group to study RE (Windows or Linux) I am more interested in memory patching and binary modification of software (including games) than malware analysis

Ok, awesome! I'm pretty much an exclusively Linux guy, so that's the path I'm planning on going down -- my email's in my profile. I'd love to discuss further!

Re: Reverse engineering course

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Post by jlevers »

dgpl wrote: post #29
z3phyr wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am all in to form a peer group to study RE (Windows or Linux) I am more interested in memory patching and binary modification of software (including games) than malware analysis

Yes I'm interested into Linux systems too, I work for embedded sw dev and sometimes I struggle with core dumps in gdb, this would help me :)

My email's in my profile -- shoot me a line :)

Re: Reverse engineering course

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Post by undershirt »

I used to dabble in Cheat Engine, Tsearch, and IDA Pro, for reversing games. Recently, a nice guy randomly showed me a demo of a modern tool called radare[1]. I was floored by the IDA-like flow-diagrams that it spit out in the terminal[2], and the short commands for navigating/bookmarking/documenting. Nice to see hobbyists don't need to buy IDA anymore!

[1]:https://www.radare.org/r/

[2]:https://www.radare.org/r/img/r2cg.png

Re: Reverse engineering course

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Post by ravenstine »

trangon wrote: post #36
ravenstine wrote: post #33

Always thought reversing is fun. Back in high school and college I would spend days or weeks trying to reverse random software packages I had installed on my system. It was pretty surprising how, with a few tools like OllyDBG, 90% of the software I attempted to crack was actually crackable. Most of Autodesk's software was ridiculously easy to crack. (Don't worry, I owned all that software already! I was studying anim…

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but it sounds like you just described “fault injection” or “mutation analysis.”

Probably closer to "mutation analysis". (or "creative tampering"?) Someone smarter than I am could probably reverse engineer while doing less of that, but I've found that it can be effective when knowledge of a system is poor. (and there's urgency that warrants it over traditional learning)

Re: Reverse engineering course

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Post by wensley »

How would you get started reverse engineering an old PS1 game? Say you wanted to try and extract the model data or textures and the disc contains only 3 or 4 files, what's the starting point?

Re: Reverse engineering course

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Post by ajphdiv »

undershirt wrote: post #44

I used to dabble in Cheat Engine, Tsearch, and IDA Pro, for reversing games. Recently, a nice guy randomly showed me a demo of a modern tool called radare[1]. I was floored by the IDA-like flow-diagrams that it spit out in the terminal[2], and the short commands for navigating/bookmarking/documenting. Nice to see hobbyists don't need to buy IDA anymore! [1]: https://www.radare.org/r/ [2]: https://www.radare.org/r/img…

There is also a GUI called Cutter that is powerd by radare2.

https://cutter.re

Re: Reverse engineering course

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Post by d2ci8xc5 »

lynxjerm wrote: post #17

RPISEC RE/VR courses (a little scattered due to the passage of time): Secure Software Principles - CSCI 4971, Spring 2010: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/academics/courses/spring10/csci4971/ Malware Analysis - CSCI 4972/6963, Spring 2013: http://security.cs.rpi.edu/courses/malware-spring2013/ Advanced Exploitation and Rootkit Development, Spring 2013: http://security.cs.rpi.edu/~candej2/ Program Obfuscation, Fall 2013: http:/…

I also find the lectures on here helpful http://opensecuritytraining.info/

Re: Reverse engineering course

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Post by nubbins »

I enjoy the little nuggets of wisdom like:

>Learning your first calling convention is like learning your first programming language. It seems complex and daunting at first, but it's really quite simple.

I will definitely read this as I'm also doing the Reverse Engineering for beginners, as well as getting sidetracked to learn Assembly with Programming From the Ground Up first.

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