Any books on...?

[kromag]

Can anyone suggest to me any good books on reversing/unpacking stuff of that nature to better protect myself for one and as an experience/educational repertoire to add to my portfolio!

Regards,

Will

[TmX]

Maybe this:
Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
http://www.amazon.com/Reversing-Secrets-Engineering-Eldad-Eilam/dp/0764574817

[kromag]

Maybe this:
Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
http://www.amazon.com/Reversing-Secrets-Engineering-Eldad-Eilam/dp/0764574817

Have you read this book any?
It also says on Amazon that the book discusses: "Learn to read compiler-generated assembly language code for IA-32 compatible processors"

I have an AMD 64 Phenom X4 Quad 9550...

So wondering if anyone has read this title or could propose something, if anything, else.

Would this book still apply under my environment though?

Regards,

Will.

[kromag]

If not any good books that someone would know about; Are there any decent websites that you folks know of for this?

Regards,

Will

[Neo]

I can't recommend any books, but I would recommend the tool IDA: The Interactive DisAssembler.

Just to let you know in advance, discussion of reverse-engineering beyond asking for resources is a bit of a taboo on the forum (see the rules under "legality of content"), so you probably won't get much help with specifics unless it's completely obvious that what you're doing is legal, even if you know that what you're doing is legal.  I know that there are legitimate uses of reverse-engineering (e.g. it was my entire summer job in 2005), but it makes sense that the forum wouldn't want to become associated at large with reverse-engineering.

[kromag]

Yeah I have the free version of this IDA Pro and it looks pretty interesting!

My main thing for asking this was for resources and to educate myself with this.

I plan on building a set of tools(tool suite) one being that of a firewall.

So I would like to, and need to, understand how to reverse these malwares a lot better than current.

This will help.

Thanks for the tips.

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Will.

[MichaelW]

Take a look at the forum rules, item 3 Legality of content:

there will be no viral or trojan technology allowed including technical data under the guise of AV technology

And then extend this to malware technology under the guise of anti-malware technology. We have no way to separate the good from the bad.

[kromag]

True.
Very well then... i sort of expected this.

I will just have to hit the old Amazon up and take a shot at what I can see there.

Mainly hoped someone has read some books to point me in that direction.

I can't afford imperial/formal education. So this is the only way.

Thanks for explaining things for me!

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Will.

[kromag]

Ok I am set with this topic you can close it if you desire to.

I did go ahead and purchase the book suggested here, and also the book titled "Rootkits" as I heard that was around the same
thing as what I would be needing to understand more closely.

Sorry for raising y'all's eyebrows  :8)

Thanks again for the help guys/gals.

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Will.