February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
23h 55m
English
One of IDA Pro’s best features is that it allows you to modify its disassembly to suit your goals. The changes that you make can greatly increase the speed with which you can analyze a binary.
IDA Pro has no undo feature, so be careful when you make changes.
IDA Pro does a good job of automatically naming virtual address and stack variables, but you
can also modify these names to make them more meaningful. Auto-generated names (also known as
dummy names) such as sub_401000 don’t
tell you much; a function named ReverseBackdoorThread would be a lot more useful. You should rename these dummy names to something more meaningful. This will also help ensure that you reverse-engineer a function only once. When ...
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