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.
IDA Pro is a commercial disassembler and debugger that allows reverse engineers to learn how specific programs work. This book provides a top-down overview of IDA Pro and its potential uses in the software reverse engineering field.
This book describes how software code analysis tools such as IDA Pro are used to disassemble programs written in high-level languages and recognise different elements of disassembled code in order to debug applications in less time.
... IDA 6.0, Linux and OS X console versions were included as standard components of your IDA distribution. As such, when you copy these console versions to your Linux or OS X platform, you must also copy your IDA key file (ida.key) so ...
What you will learn Create a safe and isolated lab environment for malware analysis Extract the metadata associated with malware Determine malware's interaction with the system Perform code analysis using IDA Pro and x64dbg Reverse-engineer ...
That's exactly what this book shows you how to deconstruct software in a way that reveals design and implementation details, sometimes even source code. Why? Because reversing reveals weak spots, so you can target your security efforts.