Reverse Engineering

Tools

IDA pro disassembler and debugger

(64-bit analysis is possible only with IDA Professional Edition)

recommended:

• IDA 6.5 (17 Dec 2013) or 6.6 (04 Jun 2014)
• Decompiler 1.9 x64 (04 Jun 2014), 1.9 x86/ARM (17 Dec 2013)

note: Hex-Rays 1.5 plugin works until IDA 6.4.130702. IDA 6.5 and higher require Decompiler 1.9 or higher.

Objdump

objdump -b binary -D -m i386:x86-64 file

Udis86

http://udis86.sourceforge.net/

c4decompiler

http://www.c4decompiler.com/

ollydbg 64

http://www.ollydbg.de/odbg64.html

HxD

http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

Tutorials

• https://tacnetsol.wistia.com/projects/9srmkf6e02 Hardware Reverse Engineering
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190319221524/http://www.devttys0.com/2012/11/reverse-engineering-serial-ports/ identifying and reverse engineering embedded serial ports