Quick introduction to reverse engineering for beginners

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_key$ = 8 ; size = 4 _len$ = 12 ; size = 4 _hash$ = 16 ; size = 4 _crc PROC mov edx, DWORD PTR _len$[esp-4] xor ecx, ecx ; i will be stored in ECX mov eax, edx test edx, edx jbe SHORT $LN1@crc push ebx push esi mov esi, DWORD PTR _key$[esp+4] ; ESI = key push edi $LL3@crc: ; work with bytes using only 32-bit registers. byte from address key+i we store into EDI movzx edi, BYTE PTR [ecx+esi] mov ebx, eax ; EBX = (hash = len) and ebx, 255 ; EBX = hash & 0xff ; XOR EDI, EBX (EDI=EDI^EBX) - this operation uses all 32 bits of each register ; but other bits (8-31) are cleared all time, so it’s OK ; these are cleared because, as for EDI, it was done by MOVZX instruction above ; high bits of EBX was cleared by AND EBX, 255 instruction above (255 = 0xff) xor edi, ebx ; EAX=EAX>>8; bits 24-31 taken "from nowhere" will be cleared shr eax, 8 ; EAX=EAX^crctab[EDI*4] - choose EDI-th element from crctab[] table xor eax, DWORD PTR _crctab[edi*4] inc ecx ; i++ cmp ecx, edx ; i
loc_80484B8: loc_80484D3: pop ebx pop esi pop ebp retn crc endp \ push esi mov esi, [ebp+key] push ebx mov ebx, [ebp+hash] test ebx, ebx mov eax, ebx jz short loc_80484D3 nop ; padding lea esi, [esi+0] ; padding; ESI doesn’t changing here mov ecx, eax ; save previous state of hash to ECX xor al, [esi+edx] ; AL=*(key+i) add edx, 1 ; i++ shr ecx, 8 ; ECX=hash>>8 movzx eax, al ; EAX=*(key+i) mov eax, dword ptr ds:crctab[eax*4] ; EAX=crctab[EAX] xor eax, ecx ; hash=EAX^ECX cmp ebx, edx ja short loc_80484B8 GCC aligned loop start by 8-byte border by adding NOP and lea esi, [esi+0] (that’s idle operation too). Read more about it in npad section 2.3. 64
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Quick introduction to reverse engin
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1.16 C++ classes . . . . . . . . .
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Preface Here (will be) some of my n
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1.1 Hello, world! Let’s start wit
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1.2 Stack Stack — is one of the m
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(_snprintf() function works just li
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1.3 printf() with several arguments
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1.4 scanf() Now let’s use scanf()
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Page 21 and 22: 1.5 Passing arguments via stack Now
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Page 33 and 34: et 0 _main ENDP Nothing very specia
Page 35 and 36: add esp, 1Ch xor eax, eax ; return
Page 37 and 38: C/C++ standard defines char type as
Page 39 and 40: eax=eax+ecx return eax ... and this
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Page 43 and 44: ; current stack state: ST(0) = resu
Page 45 and 46: ; in local stack here 8 bytes still
Page 47 and 48: fld QWORD PTR _a$[esp-4] ; current
Page 49 and 50: In other words, fnstsw ax / sahf in
Page 51 and 52: 1.13 Arrays Array is just a set of
Page 53 and 54: mov [esp+70h+var_70], eax call _pri
Page 55 and 56: jge SHORT $LN1@main mov ecx, DWORD
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Page 59 and 60: 1.14 Bit fields A lot of functions
Page 61 and 62: So, let’s download Linux Kernel 2
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Page 72 and 73: call DWORD PTR __imp__GetSystemTime
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Page 76 and 77: }; int b; struct outer_struct { cha
Page 78 and 79: }; printf ("stepping=%d\n", tmp->st
Page 80 and 81: call ___printf_chk mov eax, esi shr
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Page 86 and 87: push ecx mov DWORD PTR _this$[ebp],
Page 88 and 89: call _ZN1c4dumpEv lea eax, [esp+20h
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Page 92 and 93: xor eax, eax pop esi mov esp, ebp p
Page 94 and 95: Let’s compile it in MSVC 2010 (I
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Page 98 and 99: Some compilers can do vectorization
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Page 102 and 103: GCC In all other cases, non-SSE2 co
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Page 106 and 107: movdqa xmm1, XMMWORD PTR [ecx+16] a
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Page 112 and 113: or ebx, DWORD PTR _x6$[esp+36] mov
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2.1 LEA instruction LEA (Load Effec
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2.3 npad It’s an assembler macro
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2.4 Signed number representations T
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call function function: .. do somet
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3.2 String Debugging messages are o
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.text:3011E91B DD 1E fstp qword ptr
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loc_80483F2: pop ebp retn _f endp 4
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loc_8048444: loc_8048448: loc_80484
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public f2 f2 proc near push ebp mov
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loc_804840A: loc_804842E: loc_80484
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mov esi, DWORD PTR _k$[esp+16] push
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or eax, edx retn f endp 4.1.8 Task
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4.2 Middle level 4.2.1 Task 2.1 Wel
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mov [edx+eax], bl mov ebx, edi mov
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loc_80485AB: ; CODE XREF: f+1E0 ; f
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mov [ecx+eax], dl inc eax cmp ebx,
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Chapter 5 Tools ∙ IDA as disassem
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Chapter 7 More examples 147
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.text:00541050 arg_0 = dword ptr 4
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.text:005410F3 .text:005410F3 loc_5
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.text:005411A9 pop ebx .text:005411
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.text:00541249 .text:00541249 next_
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.text:005412FC mov esi, offset cube
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.text:005413DC call _fwrite ; write
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.text:005414A7 push ecx ; Filename
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.text:005413A3 mov ecx, [esp+44h+pa
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.text:00541408 push offset aRb ; "r
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}; }; return; fseek (f, 0, SEEK_END
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.text:005411B5 mov ebp, eax Check f
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.text:0054124C inc ebp .text:005412
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This instruction clears bit, in oth
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.text:005410CD add esp, 40h .text:0
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}; for (i=0; i
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}; tmp[y][z]=get_bit (row, y, z); f
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}; fread (buf, flen, 1, f); fclose
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7.2 SAP client network traffic comp
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.text:64405171 call dbg .text:64405
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.text:64404FF7 push offset aLogging
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Now let’s dig deeper and find con
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Chapter 8 Other things 8.1 Compiler
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Chapter 9 Tasks solutions 9.1 Easy
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9.1.5 Task 1.5 Hint #1: Keep in min
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} 9.1.8 Task 1.8 Solution: two 100*
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#define PUSH(low, high) ((void) ((t
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} } ignore one or both. Otherwise,
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