Mastering Reverse Engineering

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The handle in hkResult is used by RegEnumValueA to begin enumerating each registry value under the registry key."

A block of code is set as follows:

 while (true) {    for (char i = 1; i <= 255; i++) {      if (GetAsyncKeyState(i) & 1) {        sprintf_s(lpBuffer, "\\x%02x", i);        LogFile(lpBuffer, (char*)"log.txt");      }    }

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

87 to base-287 divided by 2 is 43 remainder 1.43 divided ...