"Reverse Engineering for Beginners" free book

Written by Dennis Yurichev (yurichev.com).

This book is free, freely available, also in source code form (LaTeX), and it will be so forever. So if you want me to continue, you may consider donating. Several ways to are available on this page: donate. Every donor name will be included in the hall of fame!

Praise for the book

Its very well done .. and for free .. amazing.' (Daniel Bilar, Siege Technologies, LLC.)
...excellent and free (Pete Finnigan, Oracle RDBMS security guru.).
... book is interesting, great job! (Michael Sikorski, author of Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software.)
... my compliments for the very nice tutorial! (Herbert Bos, full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, co-author of Modern Operating Systems (4th Edition).)
... It is amazing and unbelievable. (Luis Rocha, CISSP / ISSAP, Technical Manager, Network & Information Security at Verizon Business.)
Thanks for the great work and your book. (Joris van de Vis, SAP Netweaver & Security specialist.)
... reasonable intro to some of the techniques. (Mike Stay, teacher at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Georgia, US.)
I love this book! I have several students reading it at the moment, plan to use it in graduate course. (Sergey Bratus, Research Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College)
Dennis @Yurichev has published an impressive (and free!) book on reverse engineering (Tanel Poder, Oracle RDBMS performance tuning expert)
This book is some kind of Wikipedia to beginners... (Archer, Chinese Translator, IT Security Researcher.)

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Lite (introductory) version

There are also lite (introductory) version. It is approximately 6 times shorter than full version (~150 pages) and intended to those who wants very quick introduction to reverse engineering basics. There are nothing about MIPS, ARM, OllyDBG, GCC, GDB, IDA, there are no exercises, examples, etc.

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Topics discussed: x86/x64, ARM/ARM64, MIPS, Java/JVM.

Topics touched: Oracle RDBMS, Itanium, copy-protection dongles, LD_PRELOAD, stack overflow, ELF, win32 PE file format, x86-64, critical sections, syscalls, TLS, position-independent code (PIC), profile-guided optimization, C++ STL, OpenMP, win32 SEH.

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mini-FAQ

Q: I clicked on hyperlink inside of PDF-document, how to get back?
A: (Adobe Acrobat Reader) Alt + LeftArrow

Q: Your book is so huge! Is there anything shorter?
A: There is shortened lite version.

Q: I'm not sure, if I should try to learn reverse engineering or not.
A: I would say, the average time to become familiar with the contents of the shortened LITE-version is 1-2 month(s).

Q: May I print this book? Use it for teaching?
A: Of course, that's why book is licensed under Creative Commons terms. Someone may also want to build their own version of book, read here about it.

Q: I want to translate your book to some other language.
A: Read my note to translators.

Q: I have a question...
A: Write me it by email (dennis(a)yurichev.com) or ask your question at my forum: forum.yurichev.com.

Supplementary materials

Exercises, exercise solutions

Be involved!

Feel free to send me corrections, or, it's even possible to submit patches on book's source code (LaTeX) on GitHub or BitBucket, or SourceForge!

There is also supporting forum! You may ask/answer any questions there!

Any suggestions, what also should be added to my book?

Write me an email: dennis(a)yurichev.com

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My current plans for this book: Objective-C, Visual Basic, anti-debugging tricks, Windows NT kernel debugger, .NET, Oracle RDBMS.

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About Korean publication

In January 2015, Acorn publishing company (www.acornpub.co.kr) in South Korea did huge amount of work in translating and publishing my book (state which is it in August 2014) in Korean language.

Now it's available at their website.

How it looks like: Side A, Side B.

Translator is Byungho Min (@tais9).

Cover pictures was done by my artist friend Andy Nechaevsky: facebook/andydinka.

They are also the Korean translation copyright holder.

So if you want to have a "real" book on your shelf in Korean language and/or want to support my work, now you may buy it.