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Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners
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Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners

by David Álvarez Pérez
January 2021
Beginner to intermediate
322 pages
6h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering for Beginners

Chapter 2: Automating RE Tasks with Ghidra Scripts

In this chapter, we will cover Reverse Engineering (RE) automation by scripting Ghidra. We will start by reviewing the impressive and pretty well-organized arsenal of available Ghidra scripts built into the tool. These few hundreds of scripts are usually more than enough to cover the main automation needs.

Once you know the arsenal, you will probably also want to know how it works. Then, we will have an overview of the Ghidra script class in order to understand its internals and get some background, which will be very useful for the last part of this chapter.

Finally, you will learn how to develop your own Ghidra scripts. To do so, it will be necessary to have an overview of the Ghidra API. ...

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