Chapter 12: Analyzing Processor Modules

In this chapter, we will address how to incorporate new processor modules in Ghidra. This is an advanced topic that involves learning the Specification Language for Encoding and Decoding for Ghidra (SLEIGH) so that we can specify the language, disassembling the code, performing function identification via prologue and epilogue byte pattern matching, stack frame creation, and function cross-references generation.

During this chapter, you will acquire extremely useful skills for breaking down advanced reverse engineering protections. You will do this by implementing a virtual machine so that the adversary (you) will have to apply reverse engineering to the virtual machine before reverse engineering the original ...

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