May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
12h 21m
English

This chapter introduces the basic concepts of bootkit static analysis with IDA Pro. There are several ways to approach reversing bootkits, and covering all the existing approaches would require a book of its own. We focus on the IDA Pro disassembler, because it provides unique features that enable the static analysis of bootkits.
Statically analyzing bootkits is radically different from reverse engineering in most conventional application environments, because crucial parts of a bootkit execute in a preboot environment. For example, a typical Windows application relies on standard Windows libraries and ...
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