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Reverse Engineering Weekly Newsletter - Friday, August 29, 2014

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Top new questions this week:

Finding how IMDB creates its image codes

When you look at any IMDB image page, the movie poster image has a url of this form: http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIxOTY1NjUyN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjMxMDk1MQ@@._V1_SX214_AL_.jpg or more …

api  
asked by Alex Beals 3 votes

IDA Pro Renaming Imports

This PE file destroys its import address table. However, all the function addresses are in this _rdata segment here: Any straight forward way to rename these functions?

ida idapro-plugins x64 idapro-sdk iat  
asked by IChooseYou 3 votes
answered by Igor Skochinsky 2 votes

Why was my memory breakpoint not triggered in OllyDbg?

I am currently battling this protection on an 32-bit executable. At some point during it's runtime, the protection gets the address of DbgUiRemoteBreakin and writes a JMP to ExitProcess as an …

ollydbg pe anti-debugging protection  
asked by farmdve 2 votes
answered by peter ferrie 0 votes

Merging static library into mach-o executable

I got a mach-o executable and a static library that has a few __attribute__((constructor)) functions. Is there a (least painful) way to merge the static library into the mach-o executable ?

mach-o dynamic-linking  
asked by Krypton 1 vote

Can I send gdb command from IDA Debugger to gdbserver?

I want to send gdb command (like "backtrace", "b *0xAAAAAAA", "i b", ...) from IDA debugger to gdbserver over gdb remote debugging and receive result and print it to output view of IDA, can I do it? …

ida gdb  
asked by user3746442 1 vote
answered by Igor Skochinsky 2 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

convert this x86 ASM to C?

How could this 32-bit x86 assembly be written in C? loc_536FB0: mov cl, [eax] cmp cl, ' ' jb short loc_536FBC cmp cl, ',' jnz short loc_536FBF loc_536FBC: mov byte ptr [eax], ' ' loc_536FBF mov cl, …

ida assembly x86 c  
asked by user1365830 16 votes
answered by Igor Skochinsky 77 votes

Reverse engineering T-Disk barcodes for Tassimo coffee makers

In hope this is appropriate I have a Bosch Tassimo TAS2002EE coffee maker that uses T-Disks. Those contain coffee/milk/something else, and a barcode that is supposed to tell the machine how to deal …

hardware  
asked by GSerg 14 votes
answered by Guntram Blohm 5 votes
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