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Mastering Assembly Programming

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287488
Pages 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Alexey Lyashko Alexey Lyashko
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Alexey Lyashko is an Assembly language addict, independent software reverse engineer, and consultant. At the very beginning of his career, when he was a malware researcher at Aladdin Knowledge Systems, he invented and developed a generic code recognition method known as HOFA™. After spending a few years in the anti-malware industry and gaining sufficient experience in low-level development and reverse engineering, Alexey switched to content protection and worked as a reverse engineering consultant with Irdeto's BD+ department, actively participating in content protection technology development. Since 2013, he has worked with several software development companies providing reverse engineering and low-level software development consultancy.
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface 1. Intel Architecture 2. Setting Up a Development Environment 3. Intel Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) 4. Memory Addressing Modes 5. Parallel Data Processing 6. Macro Instructions 7. Data Structures 8. Mixing Modules Written in Assembly and Those Written in High-Level Languages 9. Operating System Interface 10. Patching Legacy Code 11. Oh, Almost Forgot

Assembly source template

We will start with two 32-bit templates, one for Windows and one for Linux. 64-bit templates will be added very soon and we will see that they are not much different from 32-bit ones. The templates contain some macro instructions and directives that will be explained later in the book. As for now, these templates are provided with the sole purpose to give you the ability to write simple (and not so simple) snippets of code, compile them, and test them in a debugger.

The Windows Assembly template (32-bit)

A Windows executable consists of several sections (the structure of a PE executable/object file will be covered in more detail in Chapter 9, Operating System Interface); usually, one section for...

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Profile icon Alexey Lyashko
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Alexey Lyashko is an Assembly language addict, independent software reverse engineer, and consultant. At the very beginning of his career, when he was a malware researcher at Aladdin Knowledge Systems, he invented and developed a generic code recognition method known as HOFA™. After spending a few years in the anti-malware industry and gaining sufficient experience in low-level development and reverse engineering, Alexey switched to content protection and worked as a reverse engineering consultant with Irdeto's BD+ department, actively participating in content protection technology development. Since 2013, he has worked with several software development companies providing reverse engineering and low-level software development consultancy.
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