Learn reverse engineering with python

1. Reverse Engineering
with
By –
Abhay Vaish
twitter.com/abhaythehero

2. Reverse Engineer probably …

3. Lets brush up some basics !
 General-Purpose CPU Registers
 The Stack, The Heap
 Breakpoints
 1. Software Breakpoints
 2. Memory Breakpoint
 3. Hardware Breakpoints

4. How can python help ?
 Portability to various systems and architectures.
 Easy to code. I mean damn easy. Tools for RE often
need to be made on short deadlines
 Quick Networking protocols implementation
 Great libraries and online community
 Leverage multiple projects and chain them
 Automation ninja.
 RE related code sometimes (almost every time !) is too
painful to understand. Enter python m/

5. http://pythonarsenal.erpscan.com/
Oh yeah it is an arsenal. No sweat !

6. Magic of ctypes

7. calling windows api using
ctypes

8. pydbg

9. Python and Immunity
Debugger

10. pefile – to parse PE headers
and other sections
From https://code.google.com/p/pefile/wiki/UsageExamples

11. pydasm – disassembling
machine code to assembly
 Python wrapper for libdasm.

12. Thank You