This is my attempt at listing material I used to learn programming and reverse engineering.

It is by no means a complete list andd I don’t speak from a place of authority in the topic.

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Debuggers and Disassembler
• Monitoring Applications
• Monitoring Network Traffic
• Hex Editors
• Learning material
• Tutorials

Debuggers and Disassembler

• x64dbg

  • Anti-Anti-Debug

  • ScyllaHide

  • TitanHide

• Ghidra Free and seems to work well from my limited exposure.

• Binary Ninja - Paid, but priced reasonably, with a student discount. Well worth the money. Has a rather nice API as well. Vector35 now owes me a hoodie.

• IDA Pro - Prohibitively expensive for hobbyists but it is the best

Monitoring Applications

API Monitor - An easy way to see what API calls aa program makes to the Windows API

Frida - Allows intercepting API calls as well as modify them.

Monitoring Network Traffic

Burp Suite - The community edition is generous and the license isn’t too expensive. Best for HTTP traffic.

mitmproxy - Free and open source, and it’s simple to extend.

Wireshark - Monitors an entire network interface and can be make use of Lua scripts to extend the protocol handling.

Hex Editors

• ImHex
• HxD
• 010 Editor

All of these work well, but ImHex and 010 are far more full featured.

Learning material

• Programming

  • You need to be able to program to reverse engineer

  • Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming

  • C++ Crash Course: A Fast-Paced Introductio

  • Python Tutorial - Python Full Course for Beginners

  • JavaScript Tutorial for Beginners: Learn JavaScript in 1 Hour

  • Yes, JavaScript will be worth learning as sooner or later you’ll come across it

• Windows development

  • Windows 10 System Programming, Part 1
  • Windows 10 System Programming, Part 2
  • Windows Kernel Programming

• Malware Analysis

  • Practical Malware Analysis
  • Malware samples to practice on
  • OALabs

• Android

  • Reverse Engineering Android Applications - Part 1
  • Reverse Engineering Android Applications - Part 2

• Misc

  • Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games
  • Rootkits and Bootkits: Reversing Modern Malware and Next Generation Threats
  • Practical IoT Hacking
  • Introduction to Static Analysis
  • A walkthrough of a CTF game where you have to cheat
  • Binary exploitation series

Tutorials

• Combined Volume Set of Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manuals

• ARM

• M68k

• Code Injection series

• UEFI bookit

• Hypervisor