Practical Binary Analysis

CONTENTS IN DETAIL

FOREWORD by Herbert Bos

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

What Is Binary Analysis, and Why Do You Need It?

What Makes Binary Analysis Challenging?

Who Should Read This Book?

What’s in This Book?

How to Use This Book

Instruction Set Architecture

Assembly Syntax

Binary Format and Development Platform

Code Samples and Virtual Machine

Exercises

PART I: BINARY FORMATS

1ANATOMY OF A BINARY

1.1 The C Compilation Process

1.1.1 The Preprocessing Phase

1.1.2 The Compilation Phase

1.1.3 The Assembly Phase

1.1.4 The Linking Phase

1.2 Symbols and Stripped Binaries

1.2.1 Viewing Symbolic Information

1.2.2 Another Binary Turns to the Dark Side: Stripping a Binary

1.3 Disassembling a Binary

1.3.1 Looking Inside an Object File

1.3.2 Examining ...