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Ghidra Software Reverse-Engineering for Beginners - Second Edition
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Ghidra Software Reverse-Engineering for Beginners - Second Edition

by David Álvarez Pérez, Ravikant Tiwari
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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6

Scripting Malware Analysis

In this chapter, we’ll apply Ghidra’s scripting capabilities to malware analysis. By using and writing Ghidra scripts, you’ll be able to analyze malware more efficiently.

Here, you’ll learn how to statically resolve the Kernel32 API hashed functions that are used by Alina shellcode, which was superficially analyzed in the previous chapter.

The Flat API is a simple but powerful version of the full-fledged complex Ghidra API. It’s a great starting point for anyone looking to develop Ghidra modules and/or scripts.

We’ll start by classifying the Ghidra Flat API functions to get more comfortable when looking for a function. Following that, we’ll look at how to iterate over the code using Java and Python before using that ...

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