Small Town Geeks

IDA Pro is the worlds leading disassembler. This means that given a binary file without any source code IDA Pro will reverse engineer that file and attempt to give you something quite close to the original source.

“The IDA Pro Book” by Chris Eagle, published by No Starch Press, is the book for anyone working with IDA. Chris Eagle is certainly an expert with both Disassembly and IDA Pro.

The first chapters of the book will catch any novice up to speed. However, Intermediate and Advanced users may also benefit from Eagles’ refresher on the world of disassembly and reverse engineering tools.

The book provides many great examples that are easy to follow along and complete yourself. Any of the code examples used in the book are available online.

Eagle is extremely confident in his writing which comforts the reader as he walks you through steps to become an IDA Pro wizard. The author uses technical terms proficiently throughout the book, but he takes good care to explain any new or unfamiliar terms to reader.

The more advanced sections of the book cover everything from Scripting in IDA with Python to Virtual Machine based obfuscation. Even IDA Pro experts must have a copy on their shelf.

In the first appendix Eagle reminds us that Hex-Rays,the company managing the IDA project, has released an older less sophisticated version of IDA as freeware(V5.0). With many versions of the software out there some users may be skeptical about whether or not this book will fulfill their needs, and how long will it be relevant? This is the book you are looking for, and even with the ever changing software releases Eagle has written in such a way that the book will be extremely relevant for a good time to come.

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Scott J. Krieder
Small Town Geeks
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