Ressources

Educational

Learning platforms

• pwn.college: Great and free Cybersecurity courses in general and they have a reverse engineering dojo
• hextree.io: Great for learning about Android Security, also has some general Reverse Engineering content
• Azeria Labs: Great for learning ARM assembly

Other

• "Self-Learning Reverse Engineering in 2022" by LiveOverflow: YT Video
• Practical Binary Analysis by Dennis Andriesse: Great book (nostarchpress has a lot of great cybersecurity books)

Tools

Essentials

• kali linux (recommended as VM)
• A disassembler & decompiler of choice for static analysis
  • ghidra (free and pre-installed on kali)
  • or others like binary ninja, IDA Free, radare2, ...
• A debugger for dynamic analysis
  • gdb (free and pre-installed on kali)
  • gef (enhanced gdb)
• python & pwntools
• Note-taking app

Situational

• A hex editor
  • imhex (free)
  • or others like 010editor
• angr (symbolic execution)
• z3 (SMT solver)
• Android Studio, jadx & frida (for reversing android apps)
• PE-bear (for reversing Windows PE binaries)
• qemu & gdb-multiarch (for reversing ARM binaries on x64 machines)
• CheatEngine (for Windows game hacking)