TOPICS TO BE COVERED IN THIS LESSON (This will undoubtedly change many times to accomodate requests) An introduction to Hexadecimal and Binary numbers Intro to Program Development (All Languages) Writing Programs in Assembly Language Translation of Assembly 'Commands' .EXE and .COM file templates Part I: Registers, Hello World Part II: Our First Interactive Program Part III: Modularity and Procedures (Ideal Mode) Part IV: Command Line Parsing Necessary Assembly Example Code A Mini C Tutorial How to set up your tools: SoftICE SoftICE'95 Handy Windows Breakpoints (WIN32API.TXT) Reverse Engineering your own C and Assembly examples Real World Examples: Using What You Know _HaK_ has developed some excellent Win32 Starter Tutorials that - though they are geared toward making win32 apps in assembly, this is precisely what you need to read... the explanation of all those wm_commands for example (need I say more?) Additional tools, such as the win32 help file and interrupt list (and a few other things that may have been cut from my links in the past such as HelpPC and Art of Assembly) are HERE GIJ has done a huge amount of work lately and will be making a site for it's display this section is a pre-mirror until gij's page(s) are ready. (originally some of this was at my request, but gij went above and beyond as you can see!) * 2 dimensional math in assembly for matrix styled keygens * Using SoftICE for symbolic debugging (useful!!!) * Finding hidden 'easter eggs' in programs (MineSweeper I) * Fixing a bug and NE file format (MineSweeper II) * Making a Trainer (MineSweeper III) * Defeating server-based-protections using API Hooking (w/Source) * New user tutorial on IDA (interactive dissassembler) * How to load IDA symbols into SoftICE (very nice!!!) * NASM toolkit for win32 apps (sorely needed!) NetWalker Debugger (win32 debugger programming example) Ghiribizzio made a nice IDA tutorial as well download it HERE (ghiric32.zip 844,056 bytes) with the ghost program included, or go to to MEXELITE and download the text only version from their tutorials section -- both have the ida database included (while you are there check out the other tutorials as well!)
For fun, try making a batch file to run idaw.exe HERE is a nice file you may want... It is an opcode reference converted to WinHelp format by HUTCH The source of the original intel opcodes text was submitted to him anonymously And HERE is a cool little mnemonic window - this is an extremely handy tool - a tiny window with translated assembly byte codes (again from Hutch) If you use UltraEdit (excellent editor that highlights in color any language you specify) HERE is a replacement for the WORDFILE.TXT which includes updated x86 assembly highlights which were submitted to me by I_MAGNUS HERE is my WORDFILE.TXT which includes the basic stuff from ultra edit as well as the above assembly list - save this over your default wordfile.txt in your ultraedit directory and you are all set! HelpPC.Zip (263,711 bytes) - Invaluable Assembly Tool This program is a necessity for all levels of programmers! Much of cracking requires knowledge of interrupts, so download this Pre-Combined Interrupt List 55 (1,186,607 byte zip / 28-SEP-1997) And check out Ralf Brown's Interrupt List Site If you are interested in DOS level device drivers, here is the assembly source you need I have an affinity for small apps that can be emailed or transported easily on a floppy... heres yet another tiny assembler: The Wolf Assembler In the spirit which Fravia and myself have been so fond, I am completely open and welcome to submissions from people who want to immortalize themselves by writing sections for this tutorial. Certain submissions are more interesting of course than others. I will end up rewriting most if not all of them for ease of reading and to include my own comments. All submissions will receive credit to their originators (by pseudonym) unless complete anonymity is requested. |
