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No source code? No problem. With IDA Pro, you live in a source code-optional world. IDA can automatically analyze the millions of opcodes that make up an executable and present you with a disassembly. But at that point, your work is just beginning. With The IDA Pro Book, you'll learn how to turn that mountain of mnemonics into something you can actually use.

Hailed by the creator of IDA Pro as the "long-awaited" and "information-packed" guide to IDA, The IDA Pro Book covers everything from the very first steps to advanced automation techniques. While other disassemblers slow your analysis with inflexibility, IDA invites you to customize its output for improved readability and usefulness. You'll save time and effort as you learn to:

Identify known library routines, so you can focus your analysis on other areas of the code
Extend IDA to support new processors and filetypes, making disassembly possible for new or obscure architectures
Explore popular plug-ins that make writing IDA scripts easier, allow collaborative reverse engineering, and much more
Utilize IDA's built-in debugger to tackle obfuscated code that would defeat a stand-alone disassembler

You'll still need serious assembly skills to tackle the toughest executables, but IDA makes things a lot easier. Whether you're analyzing the software on a black box or conducting hard-core vulnerability research, a mastery of IDA Pro is crucial to your success. Take your skills to the next level with The IDA Pro Book.

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Chris Eagle is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He is the author of many IDA plug-ins and co-author of Gray Hat Hacking, and he has spoken at numerous security conferences, including Black Hat, Defcon, ToorCon, and ShmooCon.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press; 1st edition (August 15, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593271786
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593271787
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.75 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches

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Rajat Swarup

An awesome IDA Pro reference

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2009

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This is a really good book. Definitively a complete reference on IDA Pro. Chris Eagle has gone to great lengths to put in the detailed screenshots and examples to illustrate the power of IDA. There are chapters on IDC scripting, reversing obfuscated code, etc. Every small feature of IDA is well documented. This book is a good reference for novice to advanced users. One thing that is missing (may not technically be termed missing because it was released after the book was published) is the bochs emulator support using IDA Plugins. Since it is a plugin, it cannot technically be termed missing but would have been cool to read about in this book...may be in the next edition. This is a definite buy for reverse engineering enthusiasts.

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Great Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 24, 2010

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This is not just the best book for mastering IDA Pro, it is one of the best books I've ever read. It goes in depth, from beginning to end, with IDA Pro and also explains the principles necessary to understand how to effectively reverse engineer binaries. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn a lot and read great literature along the way.

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Peter Koziar

Essential book on IDA Pro

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 31, 2010

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Absolutely essential book for using and extending IDA Pro. It can be a little sparse in places, but gives the "big picture" that the IDA Pro documentation lacks. It's section on setting up the development environment for building extensions alone is worth the price of the book.

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Federico

excellent book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2009

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The IDA Pro Book is an "excellent book! Recommended if you are into Reverse Engineering and not only specific for IDA. Well written with lots of examples. Really enjoyed it."

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E. Hulse

The IDA Pro Book Review

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 26, 2008

Second Edition Review:
If you are considering any other book about IDA Pro Don't bother, as The IDA Pro Book Second Edition is the only book on IDA Pro that you will need.

The overall structure of the Second Edition is unchanged, which is not a bad thing. The structure Chris Eagle uses allows for inexperienced users to get spun up on the basics of IDA Pro while allowing experienced users to jump into more advanced topics.

The author has an excellent method of elaborating concepts. A Novice user can easily follow the examples and build knowledge as they dive deeper into the book. Experienced users should not be put off by this, the first half of the book may be aimed at the Novice, but the second half is packed with much deeper information on more advanced topics.

If you've read the first edition and take a look at the table of contents for the second edition you may be deceived into thinking very little has changed. In fact, you'd be wrong as the second edition offers much more coverage of IDA Python. The second edition also brings users up to speed on the latest editions to IDA Pro to include Scriptable Plugins, Loader Modules and Scriptable Processor Modules. The Second Edition has an increased number of examples using IDA Python, whereas the examples from the first editions were largely only in C using IDC /SDK.

The Likes & Dislikes of the book remain the same as my review for the first edition. Although, after considering my only dislike I must admit that my suggestion is somewhat beyond the scope of the book.

Bottom line on the Second Edition: If you are new to IDA Pro you NEED this book. If you are experienced with IDA Pro I still suggest picking it up!

First Edition Review:
I was able to pick up a pre-released copy of The IDA Pro book at Defcon in the vendor area, thanks to Adam from No Starch. This book is not an introduction to reverse engineering, its a hard core manual for IDA Pro. IDA Pro is a critical weapon in any reverser's arsenal, so proficiency in this tool is paramount to your success in reverse engineering. If you are new to IDA Pro you need this book, even if you've been working with IDA for a while you will more than likely learn quite a few things after reading it. Unlike the two other books I've read on IDA Pro this book has no fluff or filler, its solid information! The funny thing when comparing it to the other two IDA books is its thicker than both combined, and contains an exponentially larger amount of information.

The author takes time to explain things in a very clear manner as you walk through from an introduction to the tool to more advanced usage such as customizing, extending IDA, debugging, and dealing with obfuscated code. The author answered questions I had been spent weeks asking and searching the Internet for.

Likes:

Just about everything. The author walks you through plenty of code and discusses scenarios where you could apply the information he is giving you. The fact that he took his time to elaborate on why, and when you might use a piece of information is unlike many authors whom will give you information and leave the reader wondering "What would I use that for".

This book does not just talk about Win32 and Portable Executable format, ELF binaries have a continual guest appearance throughout the book, and firmware/binaries are mentioned in numerous chapters.

Side bar elaboration is kept to a minimum, I often find in texts that an author will go on about background information that does not add anything significant to what I am reading. Chris Eagle keeps this to a minimum adding small side bars when necessary but only take up a small amount of real estate.

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My only dislike of this book was the use of PE format as the example in chapter 18 - Binary Files and Ida Loader modules. Despite the use of a well known format chosen for this example the concepts were clearly displayed. I think it would have made it more interesting if the author had used a lesser known format, or do as the author of "Reversing, Secrets of Reverse Engineers" did and create his own binary.

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Ramon

Do you really want to master the art of disassembly? Start here!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2010

Honestly, when picking up a book that is focused on a single tool, as in this case, my main concerns are: how linked (and limited) the content is to the tool and its capabilities, if the book can become obsolete soon with new versions of the tool, and what else the material offers to the specific field out of the tool.

In this case, it is fair to say that IDA Pro ([...]) is the most popular disassembly tool (and debugger now) in the market during the last decade, so covering it is like going deeper into the field of malware analysis, software reverse engineer and vulnerability research. Beginners can start playing with the evaluation version, while professionals have been using the Pro version for a long time.

Apart from that, the moment I realize Chris Eagle was the book author, it added some excitement to the mix. I know Chris when we released the Scan of the Month 32 challenge on the Honeynet Project ([...]), back in 2004. The challenge was focused on analyzing a home-made malware binary, called RaDa, and Chris was the winner ([...]); he even developed an IDA Pro script to unpack the binary and solve it.

Therefore, the book title does not make any justice to its contents :), as this is not only The IDA PRO Book or the unofficial guide, but the modern software disassembly (static binary analysis) masterpiece and The IDA Pro Bible.

The first two chapters are a must for anyone starting in the world of reversing and disassembly. Something I really liked about the introductory chapters is how the author establishes the relationships between the different functionality available in IDA, and other (more traditional) single tools offering similar capabilities.

Then, the book goes in depth into IDA, getting started, covering the interactive interface and navigation capabilities, including the well-known and the most hidden features, explaining how to manage data types, structures and projects, the beauty of cross-references and graphs, and how to extend and customize IDA for extra advanced analysis (libraries, IDC scripts, plugins, modules, etc). It offers the advance readers the required skills and tools to move their analysis activities to the next level.

Every chapter is preceded by a great introduction explaining what is it about, and when and why this chapter is important for the analyst. Chapters do not simply move over the different menus and capabilities of IDA Pro, but describe them within a context based on the author experience after years of binary analysis, going in depth into the essence and goal of a given feature, the way to use it and the common drawbacks. Chris also uses his experience to highlight what is the most typical finding and tool output in various scenarios and why.

The book ends up with a few chapters that challenge the reader to put in action the skills learned throughout the book into real-world applications. Finally, it covers the new debugging capabilities (dynamic binary analysis) available since IDA version 4.5. For those starting in the field, appendix A points out the differences between the free and the commercial IDA version, and how these may influence your interest on specific book chapters.

The book is highly recommended to both beginners and intermediate/advanced users and professionals, and definitely it is a dense (like the tool it covers) but very easy to read book that becomes a reference in your bookshelves the minute it reaches your hands. Besides that, its contents won't easily become obsolete with new IDA Pro version. It is not a book to read in a couple of nights; this is the kind of "practical" book that I strongly recommend to read with a computer and a running copy of IDA handy, so that you can test all the tips and tricks and practice the topics being discussed.

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Best IDA book ever

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on September 20, 2009

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This book is mind blowing. It contains a great reference howto utilize IDA to complete reversing tasks. And it stays concrete and understandable, it's introductive and well structured. A must-have for Reversers. Chris' book rocks!

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Rolph Kreis

Sehr gut.

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on July 16, 2014

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Das Buch zeigt, wenn auch "nur" für die Versionen 5.x, warum IDA "das" Tool für RE ist und wie man das Tool effizient benutzt. Ganz nebenbei wird auch ein wenig Theorie vermittelt. -> top.

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IDAユーザーには一読をおすすめできます

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on December 6, 2009

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全体として、単にIDAの使い方をマニュアル的に説明するのではなく、実例付きでリバースエンジニアリングの基礎知識を織り交ぜながら、読みやすい英語で解説が行われています。また、IDA以外のツールとか、役に立つウェブサイトのリンクもちょくちょくと紹介されており、興味のある分野をさらに深く知りたい方には便利でしょう。

構成としては、まず冒頭の250ページで、IDAのまったくの初心者を対象とした入門トピックを一通りカバーします。このあたりが一番マニュアルっぽい部分ですが、それでも退屈せずに読めるのは著者の力量のおかげだと思います。

その次の150ページはスクリプトやプラグインといったIDAを使いこなすための話題が中心で、すでに普通にIDAを使えている中級ユーザーにも役に立つ内容です。残りの200ページほどは、IDAデバッガの使い方に加え、リバースエンジニアリングのケース別に有用な知識をまとめたものになっています。

さすがにx86アセンブリがまったく分からない人には無理ですが、ちょっとでもかじったことがあって、とりあえず英語が苦にならないならば、十分に読みこなせる書籍だと思います。

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経済学初心者

IDA Pro購入者のマストアイテム

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on September 14, 2008

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IDA Pro入門から中級まで幅広く読者層をカバーする内容となっている。本書を手にすると640ページという量に一瞬圧倒されるが、コードの読み方を中心とした説明がふんだんに盛り込まれていることもあり、実際のコードレビュー時に役立てることができるだろう。また、後半にはソフトウェア脆弱性発見手法や、コード難読化についての説明もあり、中級者もフォローする構成となっていることがより多くの読者を迎えることになるだろう。

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