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gef
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Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)
There is also GEF, which is widely used by the reverse engineering and CTF community.
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How do you use gdb without the tui? Are there advantages? Or just describe your GDB workflow.
If you are on Linux, install GEF and be happy.
- TF2 on Linux is running incredibly poorly, reporting 1200%+ CPU usage. Steam also appears to have some sort of memleak and infinite loop/callback going on leading to absurd CPU usage over time.
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Any good and easy-to-use C debuggers?
If you are in linux, I recomend none of them (haha) because you should get more used to GDB a little bit. You just need to install some good visualizers likes GEF, for example.
- Emulating an emulator inside itself. Meet Blink
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Are there any cpu emulators that could help me learn i386 assembly?
https://github.com/hugsy/gef, https://hugsy.github.io/gef/, https://hugsy.github.io/gef/commands/context/ ("Values in red indicate that this register has had its value changed since the last time execution stopped.")
- What plugins do you recommend for ExploitDev or RE and why?
- Awesome TUI tools
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Fully Dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment
The attached debugger is not just raw GDB but is using https://hugsy.github.io/gef/ to make debugging less of a pain. It's still not perfect but helps plenty already.
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Debugging with GDB
I still struggle with GDB but my excuse is that I seldom use it.
When I was studying reverse engineering though, I came across a really cool kit (which I've yet to find an alternative for lldb, which would be nice given: rust)
I'd recommend checking it out, if for no other reason than it makes a lot of things really obvious (like watching what value lives in which register).
LLDB's closest alternative to this is called Venom, but it's not the same at all. https://github.com/ovh/venom
Apktool
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Understanding security in React Native applications
App tampering and repackaging can be performed by using reverse engineering or tampering tools, such as Apktool, dex2jar, etc.
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Wearmodder Auto - Automatically scalling sideloaded apps for WearOS
Apktool made by iBotPeaches, this uses v2.9.1
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Getting Started, How to pirate on Pico 4 ?
Can someone clarify what "PP tools" are, and provide a link to them? I came across this link (https://apktool.org/) but I'm not sure if it's the right tool.
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Reverse engineering android app
Apktool is all you need most of the time.
- TUTORIAL: how to change Revanced icon to any icon you want.
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Should I reverse engineer the APK and upload it?
But it'll still be editable and we can make something good out of it. One of the famous ones, that I'm planning to use is ApkTool(https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/).
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A PSA for twitter lewds:
I did a dissection of twitter apk (got from apk pure) with apktool, and I found permission :
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Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API
Not sure. I started reverse engineering Java apps very early in my life — initially it was J2ME games. Decompilers of the time sucked but that didn't stop me from modding Gravity Defied :P
I honestly don't know what's a good way of getting started on reverse engineering. There's a bunch of everything about Windows executables in particular, including "crackmes", but native machine code is a level up from JVM bytecode. Java classes and Android dex files can be decompiled back to sensible source with a good chance that you get something that can be compiled again. No such luck for native code — C/C++ compilation is a lossy process by its nature, especially the optimizations. Ghidra does a decent job but still requires a non-zero amount of manual assistance. Flash games also were good to hone one's reverse engineering skills since ActionScript decompilers did a pretty darn good job.
Anyway. To decompile dex to Java source, there's jadx: https://github.com/skylot/jadx
Since decompilation is sometimes lossy, there's apktool for when you want to put the app back together after tinkering with it: https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool
It goes without saying that you also need a JDK and the Android SDK. In particular, you need apksigner form the SDK to sign the unsigned apks generated by apktool. You can also automate things a bit and use adb to deploy them to your device.
What I usually do is get a high-level overview of the app in jadx, and then modify the smali (dalvik bytecode in text form, very assembly-like) files generated by apktool.
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Anyone have the ability to pull the files from walkabout mini golf, trying to 3d print them but I can't find the files
I am not game or android app dev, but you might first need to de-compile apk using tools like https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/
- É possível fazer engenharia reversa em um app na playstore?
What are some alternatives?
pwndbg - Exploit Development and Reverse Engineering with GDB Made Easy
jadx - Dex to Java decompiler
peda - PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB
dex2jar - Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files
gdb-dashboard - Modular visual interface for GDB in Python
Uber Apk Signer - A cli tool that helps signing and zip aligning single or multiple Android application packages (APKs) with either debug or provided release certificates. It supports v1, v2 and v3 Android signing scheme has an embedded debug keystore and auto verifies after signing.
lldb-mi - LLDB's machine interface driver
binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool [Moved to: https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk]
radare2 - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset [Moved to: https://github.com/radareorg/radare2]
androguard - Reverse engineering and pentesting for Android applications
edb-debugger - edb is a cross-platform AArch32/x86/x86-64 debugger.
Ghidra-Cpp-Class-Analyzer - Ghidra C++ Class and Run Time Type Information Analyzer