No source code? No problem. With IDA Pro, you live in a source code-optional world. IDA can automatically analyze the millions of opcodes that make up an executable and present you with a disassembly. But at that point, your work is just beginning. With The IDA Pro Book, you'll learn how to turn that mountain of mnemonics into something you can actually use.

Hailed by the creator of IDA Pro as the "long-awaited" and "information-packed" guide to IDA, The IDA Pro Book covers everything from the very first steps to advanced automation techniques. While other disassemblers slow your analysis with inflexibility, IDA invites you to customize its output for improved readability and usefulness. You'll save time and effort as you learn to:

• Identify known library routines, so you can focus your analysis on other areas of the code

• Extend IDA to support new processors and filetypes, making disassembly possible for new or obscure architectures

• Explore popular plug-ins that make writing IDA scripts easier, allow collaborative reverse engineering, and much more

• Utilize IDA's built-in debugger to tackle obfuscated code that would defeat a stand-alone disassembler

You'll still need serious assembly skills to tackle the toughest executables, but IDA makes things a lot easier. Whether you're analyzing the software on a black box or conducting hard-core vulnerability research, a mastery of IDA Pro is crucial to your success. Take your skills to the next level with The IDA Pro Book.

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The IDA Pro Bible, actually - 2008-12-06
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I have a few IDA Pro books at home. Luckily, I can throw out all the rest now thanks to Chris Eagle's wonderful contribution. I also tried quite hard to discover technical errors in this book, but there are very few. This book is solid. Cheers to the author!

A good book for advanced users and an excellent book for beginners. - 2008-10-03
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IDA Pro is a tool that I always tentatively held at arms length. The magnitude of its complexity and lack of accessible documentation (in the form of vague web tutorials, advanced technical docs that were over my head, and half-remembered bits of advice) kept me from fully embracing this useful tool. Chris Eagle's book is the book I wish I had years ago.

The IDA Pro Book is the first book you should read if you are interested in IDA Pro, or disassembly and reverse engineering in general. It is also a book that intermediate and expert IDA Pro users can learn something new from as well.

The book focuses on IDA Pro, while delving into other related topics (assembly, binary formats, variations between compilers, etc.) to give the reader a general understanding but not so much as to be distracting. There is little fluff material, but plenty of concise, practical examples and scenarios.

As much as I enjoyed The Shellcoder's Handbook and Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering, I would say reading The IDA Pro Book first would be an excellent primer.

An awesome IDA Pro reference - 2009-01-06
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This is a really good book. Definitively a complete reference on IDA Pro. Chris Eagle has gone to great lengths to put in the detailed screenshots and examples to illustrate the power of IDA. There are chapters on IDC scripting, reversing obfuscated code, etc. Every small feature of IDA is well documented. This book is a good reference for novice to advanced users. One thing that is missing (may not technically be termed missing because it was released after the book was published) is the bochs emulator support using IDA Plugins. Since it is a plugin, it cannot technically be termed missing but would have been cool to read about in this book...may be in the next edition. This is a definite buy for reverse engineering enthusiasts.

excellent book - 2009-09-20
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The IDA Pro Book is an "excellent book! Recommended if you are into Reverse Engineering and not only specific for IDA. Well written with lots of examples. Really enjoyed it."

Time saving, efficiency increasing, and skill enhancing - 2008-10-10
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Usually to get things done in programming already established programs, you need the source code. "The Ida Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler" is a guide to that common remedy for those problems, Ida Pro. Covering many unknown yet useful techniques to use with the disassembler, it touches on subjects such as routines, processor and file types, plug-ins, debuggers, and so much more. Time saving, efficiency increasing, and skill enhancing, there is little reason for any Ida Pro user to not pick up "The Ida Pro Book".

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