Dennis Yurichev

CC BY-NC-ND

There are several popular meanings of the term reverse engineering: The reverse engineering of software: researching compiled programs; The scanning of 3D structures and the subsequent digital manipulation required order to duplicate them; recreatingDBMS9structure. This book is about the first meaning. This is the Lite version.It is approximately 6 times shorter than thefull version(~150 pages) and is intended for those who want a very quick introduction to the basics of reverse engineering. It does not however, cover the topics of: OllyDBG, GCC, GDB and IDA. There are also no exercises, examples, etc. Topics discussed: x86/x64, Java/JVM. Topics touched: Oracle RDBMS, Itanium, copy-protection dongles, LD_PRELOAD, stack overflow, ELF, win32 PE file format, x86-64, critical sections, syscalls, TLS, position-independent code (PIC), profile-guided optimization, C++ STL, OpenMP, win32 SEH. Also in Russian.