Reverse Engineering

Tools

X86 Win32 Cheat sheet
Intro X86
base conversion
Command line tricks

Encondings/ Binaries

file f1
 
ltrace bin
 
strings f1
 
base64 -d
 
xxd -r

nm

objcopy

binutils

Online References

IDA

Cheat sheet
IDA PRO

GDB

Commands and cheat sheet

gdb

$ gcc -ggdb -o <filename> <filename>.c

Starting with some commands:

$ gdb <program name> -x <command file>

For example:

$ cat command.txt
set disassembly-flavor intel
disas main

objdump

Display information from object files: Where object file can be an intermediate file created during compilation but before linking, or a fully linked executable

$ objdump -d  <bin>

hexdump & xxd

For canonical hex & ASCII view:

$hexdump -C

xxd

Make a hexdump or do the reverse:

xxd hello > hello.dump
xxd -r hello.dump > hello