Reverse Engineering for Beginners

Index

.NET, 677
AT&T syntax, 10 , 29
Buffer Overflow, 261 , 691
C language elements
Pointers, 59 , 66 , 101 , 368 , 404
Post-decrement, 425
Post-increment, 425
Pre-decrement, 425
Pre-increment, 425
C99, 100
bool, 290
restrict, 491
variable length arrays, 272
const, 7 , 73
for, 174 , 453
if, 115 , 144
return, 8 , 78 , 99
switch, 143 , 144 , 153
while, 189
C standard library
alloca(), 27 , 272 , 436 , 683
assert(), 277 , 636
atexit(), 545
atoi(), 475 , 781
calloc(), 763
close(), 667
exit(), 440
free(), 436
fseek(), 763
ftell(), 763
getenv(), 782
localtime(), 584
localtime_r(), 340
longjmp(), 145
malloc(), 333 , 436
memchr(), 889
memcmp(), 489 , 638 , 891
memcpy(), 10 , 59 , 487 , 888
memset(), 485 , 803 , 890
open(), 667
pow(), 217
puts(), 15
qsort(), 368
rand(), 324 , 629 , 715 , 718 , 751
read(), 667
realloc(), 436
scanf(), 59
strcmp(), 483 , 667
strcpy(), 10 , 485 , 752
strlen(), 189 , 401 , 485 , 502 , 889
time(), 584
tolower(), 769
toupper(), 510

va_arg, 496

va_list, 499

vprintf, 499

Compiler’s anomalies, 137 , 217 , 287 , 300 , 317 , 463 , 507 , 859

C++, 794

exceptions, 683

C++11, 555 , 657

ostream, 538

References, 539

RTTI, 537

STL, 625

std::forward_list, 555

std::list, 546

std::map, 562

std::set, 562

std::string, 539

std::vector, 555

Garbage collector, 609

Global variables, 68

grep usage, 180 , 250 , 625 , 640 , 644 , 792

Hash functions, 438

Intel syntax, 10 , 13

Mac OS X, 705

position-independent code, 13 , 664

RAM, 72

ROM, 72 , 73

Base address, 672

Binary tree, 562

Dynamically loaded libraries, 16

Linker, 73 , 523

RISC pipeline, 127

Non-a-numbers (NaNs), 244

OOP

Polymorphism, 523

Reverse Polish notation, 253

Buffer overflow, 267

Entropy, 826

Recursion, 23 , 25 , 451

Tail recursion, 451

Stack, 24 , 89 , 145

Stack overflow, 25

Stack frame, 60

Syntactic Sugar, 144

Thumb-2 mode, 15

iPod/iPhone/iPad, 12

OllyDbg, 37 , 62 , 70 , 90 , 102 , 118 , 159 , 178 , 192 , 209 , 223 ,

234 , 256 , 263 , 266 , 279 , 280 , 309 , 331 , 347 , 348 ,

352 , 355 , 371 , 675 , 704 , 905

Oracle RDBMS, 8 , 391 , 635 , 680 , 795 , 802 , 804 , 839 , 848 ,

859 , 870

Ada, 97

Alpha AXP, 4

AMD, 654