Mastering Reverse Engineering

Learning about the APIs

We'll be skipping Hello World here since we have already made one in the previous chapters. Instead, we'll be looking into the following example programs:

• A keylogger saved to a filez
• Enumerating a registry key and printing it out
• List processes and printing out
• Encrypting data and storing it in a file
• Decrypting an encrypted file
• Listening to port 9999 and sending back a message when connected

The source code for these programs can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Reverse-Engineering/tree/master/ch7. Feel free to play with these programs, add your own code, or even create your own version. The aim here is to get you to learn how these APIs work, hand in hand.

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