Anyone into Reverse Engineering ?

[sithlord]

Ive been doing some reverse engineering on binary files and protections/packers with ollydbg.

Its really really hard

Anyone else in to this stuff ?

 

[Rroff]

Had a play in the past with creating programs to extract game files that have been packed into a single large file - not really done anything more difficult than debugging the exe to find the XOR string used to "encrypt" the data.

Its something that requires a pretty broad amount of experience to be able to second guess what the original programmer was doing as well as a fairly bit of knowledge of obscure OS, compiler and so on functionality, etc.

 

[Smit]

Got a few books to try and get in to it but never got round to it yet.