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7 tools that have influenced the reversing community

Reverse engineering has been used by the military, big companies and many more. It is the act of taking something (computer, device, weapon, software) and “stripping” it to learn or analyze its inner working in detail. Compaq, one of IBM’s major competitors, did this in the early 1980s, using the reverse engineering process to dissect the IBM PC and build their own product. In this blog post, we list 7 tools for reverse engineering on the Microsoft Windows platform that have influenced the reversing community the most.

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Using reverse engineering techniques to see how a common malware packer works

UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) is an open source executable packer that is common in the malware scene (albeit often heavily modified). UPX supports all major operating systems and both x86 and x64 platforms. UPX on its own features no anti-debug checks, no scrambled code/stolen bytes and no encryption. For this post I have coded my own software in the C language to demonstrate how UPX works, what it does to the .code/.data segment in the PE header and how you can rebuild an executable that has been packed with UPX.cram