Book description
The result of more than a decade of research and development within the NSA, the Ghidra platform was developed to address some of the agency’s most challenging reverse-engineering problems. With the open-source release of this formerly restricted tool suite, one of the world’s most capable disassemblers and intuitive decompilers is now in the hands of cybersecurity defenders everywhere — and The Ghidra Book is the one and only guide you need to master it.
In addition to discussing RE techniques useful in analyzing software and malware of all kinds, the book thoroughly introduces Ghidra’s components, features, and unique capacity for group collaboration. You’ll learn how to:
•Navigate a disassembly
•Use Ghidra’s built-in decompiler to expedite analysis
•Analyze obfuscated binaries
•Extend Ghidra to recognize new data types
•Build new Ghidra analyzers and loaders
•Add support for new processors and instruction sets
•Script Ghidra tasks to automate workflows
•Set up and use a collaborative reverse engineering environment
Designed for beginner and advanced users alike, The Ghidra Book will effectively prepare you to meet the needs and challenges of RE, so you can analyze files like a pro.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the Authors
- About the Tech Reviewer
- BRIEF CONTENTS
- CONTENTS IN DETAIL
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- 1 INTRODUCTION TO DISASSEMBLY
- 2 REVERSING AND DISASSEMBLY TOOLS
- 3 MEET GHIDRA
- PART II BASIC GHIDRA USAGE
- 4 GETTING STARTED WITH GHIDRA
- 5 GHIDRA DATA DISPLAYS
- 6 MAKING SENSE OF A GHIDRA DISASSEMBLY
- 7 DISASSEMBLY MANIPULATION
- 8 DATA TYPES AND DATA STRUCTURES
- 9 CROSS-REFERENCES
- 10 GRAPHS
- PART III MAKING GHIDRA WORK FOR YOU
- 11 COLLABORATIVE SRE
- 12 CUSTOMIZING GHIDRA
- 13 EXTENDING GHIDRA’s WORLDVIEW
- 14 Basic Ghidra Scripting
- 15 ECLIPSE AND GHIDRADEV
- 16 GHIDRA IN HEADLESS MODE
- PART IV A DEEPER DIVE
- 17 GHIDRA LOADERS
- 18 GHIDRA PROCESSORS
- 19 THE GHIDRA DECOMPILER
- 20 COMPILER VARIATIONS
- PART V REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS
- 21 OBFUSCATED CODE ANALYSIS
- 22 PATCHING BINARIES
- 23 BINARY DIFFERENCING AND VERSION TRACKING
- GHIDRA FOR IDA USERS
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: The Ghidra Book
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2020
- Publisher(s): No Starch Press
- ISBN: 9781718501027
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