If you like reverse engineering and want to learn all the secrets of IDA Pro, this is your book. This work written by Chris Eagle, a top expert on the subject, reveals the power of the best tool for reverse engineering. The IDA Pro, 2nd Edition (ISBN-13: 978-1593272890) along its 26 chapters describes how to use IDA Pro and all its options, as well as the decompiler, debugger and the emulator, and of course the development of scripts using IDC and Python (IDAPython) languages.
IDA Pro is a complex tool to analyze all types of binaries, but this book makes it easy for novices to learn and those who are already experts can benefit from reading it as well.
The advanced sections of extending IDA Pro using IDC or Python are priceless; the author includes many scripts very well explained. Personally I’m a big fan of Python so all the chapters related to IDAPython for me are the most interesting.
On the book website we can find more resources and a number of plugins for IDA Pro, of special interest the x86 Emulator plugin.
The code that the book analyzes is for x86 under Windows, but IDA Pro supports many more platforms such as ARM or binaries for Linux (ELF) and MacOS (Mach-o) among others.
Certainly a must-read for any cybersecurity professional where it is vital to possess the necessary skills to find vulnerabilities in software or analyze malware.
Score (1 rose, very bad / 5 roses, very good): 5 Roses (Mandatory Reading)
— Simon Roses Femerling
