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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
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Chapter 6: Scripting Malware Analysis

In this chapter, we will apply the scripting capabilities of Ghidra to malware analysis. By using and writing Ghidra scripts, you will be able to analyze malware in a more efficient way.

You will learn how to statically resolve the Kernel32 API hashed functions used by Alina shellcode, which was superficially analyzed in the previous chapter.

The Flat APIs are simple but powerful versions of the full-fledged complex Ghidra API. They are a great starting point for anyone looking to develop Ghidra modules and/or scripts.

We will start by classifying the Ghidra Flat API functions into categories in order to get more comfortable when looking for a function. Following that, we will look at how to iterate over ...

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