Applied Reverse Engineering: Accelerated Assembly [P2]
Overview After reading feedback from the first part to the Accelerated Assembly guide, I’ve decided to take on a custom target, and call back to high-level languages when we encounter obscure or new pieces in the assembly. I realize that the level of detail in my last article may have been cumbersome to some readers, […]
Applied Reverse Engineering: Exceptions and Interrupts
Overview To continue learning important topics within the OS and architecture, and before diving into the deep end of the application, we’re going to cover a topic that is relevant to reverse engineering and development in general: exceptions and interrupts. In this article, you’ll learn about exceptions/interrupts from the ground up. What they are, the […]
Applied Reverse Engineering: The Stack
Overview This article is written for new reverse engineers who have a hard time understanding the stack, its layout, how it works, and the various requirements for proper function. It can be a confusing concept to wrap your head around at first, but after reading this article you should have a very deep understanding of […]
Applied Reverse Engineering: Basic Architecture
Overview Thanks for joining me in my newest series Applied Reverse Engineering. I decided to write this new series concurrently with the EPT series except I pushed out the first five for this one and haven’t started the other. Typical. Anyways, I have to give a little preface to the article and series as well […]
Day 4: VMCS Initialization, Segmentation, and Operation Visualization
Overview A quick apology for the extended delay of this series. It is my intention to continue this series at Day 4 with a lot of newfound knowledge to share with the readers. I hope that with the last 6 months those of you who had taken an interest in this series were able to […]
Day 0: Virtual Environment Setup, Scripts, and WinDbg
Overview Today is the day you begin your wild journey into hypervisor development. It’s going to be miserable, rewarding, frustrating, and exciting – all at the same time. In this article, we accelerate head on into setting up our virtual environment using VMware (taking advantage of their nested virtualization), write scripts for quick stand-up and […]