Reverse Engineering Weekly Newsletter - Friday, November 28, 2014

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Top new questions this week: Dumping a file loaded into memory We have an executable that loads an XML file into memory, before parsing it into objects. When this file is loaded into memory is it possible to, break when it is loaded into memory and then somehow ... dumping   asked by kyndigs 2 votes answered by w s 4 votes How to extract N150R firmware from .img file I'm trying to mount an img file for my wireless router firmware but I can't seem to do it successfully. When I fun the file command on that .img it returns the following: $ file file.img file.img: ... firmware   asked by RNikoopour 2 votes answered by devttys0 3 votes Check if binary was compiled with security checks (/GS) I have to check massive amount of binaries whether they were compiled with the /GS option. I assume a good indicator would be to check if they have stack cookie or not. Do you know any tool that can ... windows tools binary-analysis software-security stack-variables   asked by Dominik Antal 2 votes answered by Igor Skochinsky 5 votes lldb: break at start of actual code, not entrypoint I want lldb to break at the start of the actual code of an OS X application (which might be called main if symbols are existing). I am currently looking this up by hand, but as I want to script some ... debugging osx lldb   asked by muffel 1 vote answered by Peter Goodman 1 vote Reversing raw byte storage scheme on BusyBox-based network video recorder I have a network video recorder - the Swann NVR8-7085. It had telnet enabled and I managed to figure out the user/pass to get in (I downloaded the firmware from the site, extracted the squashfs ... file-format hex   asked by savoyardal 1 vote Modifying / Installing stock firmware on ISP Branded WRE2205 Our ISP, MWeb, gave us a free router and Wifi extender (WRE2205v2) as part of a new promotion. Neither of them really work at all (the extender works for about a minute then fails for no apparent ... disassembly decompilation linux firmware   asked by geniass 1 vote answered by geniass 1 vote HOW do I point the debugger towards UNPACKED version of dll stored on my filesystem during debugging Here is my problem: Program P1 launches another program P2. The P2 program uses a dll DLL1 which is packed using PE Compact. The DLL1 is obviously unpacked during run time and a routine inside DLL1 ... ida ollydbg debugging packers patch-reversing   asked by ASHUTOSH 1 vote answered by Jason Geffner 0 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Has XOR EAX, EBX another purpose? I have the following line in an assembler code: XOR EAX, EBX So, then I've searched a little bit and found out that XOR represents a "swap algorithm". You can read it here: ... assembly   asked by user3097712 2 votes answered by baordog 11 votes Find out a Java class file's compiler version I have a java class file. How do I find out the version of the compiler used to compile this file? I'm on Ubuntu Server 12.04. compilers java   asked by Camil Staps 4 votes answered by Camil Staps 10 votes

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