Reverse Engineering Weekly Newsletter - Friday, February 27, 2015

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Top new questions this week: How to unpack VMProtect v2.07? I've been trying to unpack a program to reverse engineer it and I discovered that (through IDA's helpful message and some frustration) it was packed. After checking it with exeinfope, it seems as ... ollydbg unpacking disassemblers   asked by Gravity 3 votes Soundness of ARM disassembly I'm interested in formal verification of software at binary code level. Obviously, the first step would be to recover the actual assembly instructions from binaries. IDAPro can do a pretty good job ... disassembly arm   asked by dissman 2 votes answered by DarthGizka 3 votes Coalesce Enums in IDA? Is there a way to modify the IDA decompiled source to reflect "OR"ed values of two or more enums? For instance, I have the following enums, HTTP_QUERY_CONNECTION has the value 23 and ... ida decompilation   asked by positron 2 votes answered by DarthGizka 5 votes cost, time and tools had Google reverse-engineered Java packages? In the context of Oracle vs. Google, what would've been the methods and techniques involved in reverse engineering the packages? What would of been the estimated timeframe and cost? Would they have ... disassembly android java api dalvik   asked by Thufir 1 vote answered by Antimony 1 vote Single step exception at the beginning of an unrelated function I'm reversing an application and I know for a fact it employs CRC checks, so if I modify the code, for instance hooking something, it'll be detected. The application uses a DLL which I replaced with ... exception crc   asked by szczurcio 1 vote answered by newgre 1 vote Highscores being sent as hash There is a game that has been created with Unity which I'm trying to beat. It sends your high-score to a site and gets posted there. I've sniffed the outgoing traffic and the game sends your ... ollydbg hash-functions   asked by Komiblanka 1 vote answered by Jason Geffner 0 votes Reverse decryption algorithm I've been working to disassemble a decryption algorithm for a particular software. The way it works is that the serial key contains all the appropriate information, gets crunched in the algorithm ... cryptography   asked by Eric 1 vote answered by Guntram Blohm 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Extracting a firmware image via U-Boot I have a inexpensive Chinese IP-Camera that runs a linux (busybox, to be precise) off a 8-MB SPI flash IC. I'm trying to get access to the device. It has a hardware serial port, and I've gotten ... hardware firmware   asked by Fake Name 2 votes answered by Igor Skochinsky 3 votes Check if exe is 64-bit How to check if Windows executable is 64-bit reading only its binary. Without executing it and not using any tools like the SDK tool dumpbin.exe with the /headers option. windows pe executable   asked by ST3 11 votes answered by ST3 19 votes Can you answer this? How to get the information of "how many and which symbols are resolved by linker"? The test is on 32-bit Linux, x86. With gcc 4.6.3 and GNU ld 2.22. So I am trying to get the information of "how many symbols are resolved by linker" during link time? And how can I list the ... c elf gcc linker ld   asked by computereasy 1 vote

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