Usefool Tools for Reverse Engineering Software
Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of a human made device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation. It often involves taking something apart and analyzing its workings in detail. source: Wikibooks
Tools to use for Reverse Engineering Sofware
Dissambler & Debuggers
A disassembler is a program that converts machine language into low-level symbolic(assembly) language, and a Debugger is a program that is used to test and debug other programs. The following list are among the most used disassemblers and debuggers there is.
IDAPro
IDA Pro is a very powerful tool for disassembly. It is an interactive, extendible disassembler and debugger. It has so many feature that will help you reverse engineer the executable quickly. It can even show the code in C, making it easier for people who are not good at understanding assembly.
OllyDbg
OllyDbg is no doubt one of the best debugger. It has the basic functions as IDAPro, but is more favored for its user-friendly interface, it's size and portability.
WinDbg
WinDbg is a multipurpose debugger for the Microsoft Windows computer operating system, distributed by Microsoft.
Radare
The biggest downside in using IDAPro and OllyDbg is the price. While they are really great at reversing they are not exactly free. This is what makes Radare excel, Radare is fully free and open-sourced, however Radare utilizes a command-line interface as opposed to a graphical.
For specific tools for specific categories, check the following links:
-WTF is CTF?
-Recon: The art of gathering information
-Recon: Getting information out of images
-Cryptography: Useful Tools
-Forensics: Basic Approach to File Analysis
-Forensics: Getting Information out of Corrupted Compressed Files
-Forensics: Dealing with Filesystems
-Steganography - The Art of Hiding Messages
-Extracting Messages Out of Sound Files
You might be interested in checking this out : https://github.com/radareorg/cutter
GUI for Radare2.
Another tool you should be looking at is https://www.frida.re/ Its a dynamic instrumentation framework working cross platform
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