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I dabbed into reverse engineering a while ago (and probably will dive deeper into it seriously later) and realized it is not particularly difficult to recognize
by markus_zhang 4y ago
I dabbed into reverse engineering a while ago (and probably will dive deeper into it seriously later) and realized it is not particularly difficult to recognize constructs in assembly code, but only for simple code such as examples. Once they go up one level, say start using a lot of win32 api, it then makes the business a lot more confusing.
That was why I decided to drop the study temporarily. I wanted to figure out exactly the OS and the type of applications (e.g. DOS virus, or Windows malware) I'd like to reverse engineer for, gain some positive engineering experience and then come back.
- timmisiak 4y agoThat's true. It's far too broad to learn everything without having a specific goal in mind. Learning the parts of asm that are useful for writing asm code is very different than learning enough asm to understand what APIs are being called from malware.