Author Archives: hasherezade

About hasherezade

Programmer and researcher, interested in InfoSec.

Flare-On 9 – Task 8

For those of you who don’t know, Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). It runs for 6 weeks, and contains usually 10-12 tasks of increasing difficulty. This year I completed as 103 (solves … Continue reading

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Flare-On 9 – Task 9

For those of you who don’t know, Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). It runs for 6 weeks, and contains usually 10-12 tasks of increasing difficulty. This year I completed as 103 (solves … Continue reading

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Flare-On 9 – Task 10

For those of you who don’t know, Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). It runs for 6 weeks, and contains usually 10-12 tasks of increasing difficulty. This year I completed as 103 (solves … Continue reading

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Ida tips: how to use a custom structure

Applying custom structures make the result of decompilation much more readable. This is how the same fragment of the code looks before and after proper structures being applied: Before: After: In this short post, I will demonstrate how to add … Continue reading

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Python scripting for WinDbg: a quick introduction to PyKd

PyKd is a plugin for WinDbg allowing to deploy Python scripts . It can be very helpful i.e. for tracing and deobfuscation of obfuscated code. In this small tutorial I will demonstrate how to install it and make everything work. … Continue reading

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Flare-On 8 – Task 6

Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). You can see more information here. It is a Capture-The-Flag type of a contest, where you are given a set of crackmes with growing difficulity. This year … Continue reading

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Flare-On 8 – Task 7

Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). You can see more information here. It is a Capture-The-Flag type of a contest, where you are given a set of crackmes with growing difficulity. This year … Continue reading

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Flare-On 8 – Task 9

Flare-On is an annual “reverse engineering marathon” organized by Mandiant (formerly by FireEye). You can see more information here. It is a Capture-The-Flag type of a contest, where you are given a set of crackmes with growing difficulity. This year … Continue reading

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Flare-On 7 – Task 10

This year’s FlareOn was very interesting. I managed to finish it with 87th place. In this small series I will describe my favorite tasks, and how I solved them. I hope to provide some educational value for others, so this … Continue reading

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Flare-On 7 – Task 9

This year’s FlareOn was very interesting. I managed to finish it with 87th place. In this small series I will describe my favorite tasks, and how I solved them. I hope to provide some educational value for others, so this … Continue reading

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