Practical Binary Analysis
by Dennis Andriesse · first published 2018
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I would not recommend POPA to people wanting to go down this road, its an extremely difficult text. Personally, just my 2 cents here, a far more useful text would be Practical Binary Analysis, https://practicalbinaryanalysis.com/ The Cousant's text is fascinating but requires a level of mathematical maturity at virtually post-doc researcher levels
on “A hands-on introduction to static code analysis” ↗Going to drop a toplevel comment and say while this is interesting (sincerely!) if people are interested in deeper tools/techniques the book Practical Binary Analysis is excellent, it ends in taint checking, symbolic excution techniques and uses Pin. https://practicalbinaryanalysis.com/ Also worth checking out is BAP, the Binary Analysis Platform, which is the successor…
on “A hands-on introduction to static code analysis” ↗…given by the VUSEC group, and unfortunately those are difficult to do remotely without the course infrastructure. The Binary and Malware Analysis course that you mentioned builds on top of the book "Practical Binary Analysis" by Dennis Andriesse, so you could grab a copy of that if you are interested.
on “Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions” ↗…hundreds of pages of "Beginner Reverse Engineering" (basically the part that teaches one to recognize C from decompiled assembly code), and many others. My most recent low level adventure was the book "Practical Binary Analysis" which I planned to use the whole holiday to push maybe a few chapters. But I never drilled deep enough into any of the topics. I believe I have the brain to drill at least a few more chapters deeper…
on “A Linux Evening” ↗> glibc has very good backward compatibility, with careful symbol versioning and whatnot. Not in my experience. Working through exercises in Practical Binary Analysis, the first problem I needed to solve was running programs compiled against an older glibc on older Ubuntu on a new Ubuntu version with newer glibc, which boiled down to hunting down the glibc so from…
on “Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp (2021)” ↗