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Assembly Language Programming for Reverse Engineering

Understand assembly code and modify EXE files to add new functionality using x64dbg.

What you'll learn

Assembly Language Basics
Reverse Engineering
x64dbg Debugging Basics
Modifying Programs
Injecting Code into EXE Files
Hollowing out an EXE File
CPU Registers
Basic Addition
INC, DEC, MUL, and DIV Instructions
Accessing Main Memory (RAM)
The Stack
Function Calls
Input and Output Functions
Code Caves
Functions that Return a Value
The Flags Register
Jumps
Compare Instructions
Structured Programming
Signed Operations
And more...

This course includes:

15 hours of on-demand video
1 article
60 downloadable resources
Access on mobile and TV
Audio description in existing audio
Certificate of completion

Course content

26 sections • 102 lectures • 15h 5m total length

Requirements

PC
Basic C programming knowledge is helpful but not necessary
You will learn everything you need to know

Description

If you have been using debuggers to reverse engineer programs but wished you had a better understanding of Assembly Language, then this course is for you. We will cover enough assembly language to allow you to understand how to modify EXE files by inserting your own code or modifying existing EXE files to do things they were not originally intended to do.

Traditionally, assembly language programming is taught using assemblers like NASM or FASM. However, learning it that way does not provide the skills to understand reverse-engineered programs. There is a missing link (knowledge gap) in how to apply assembly knowledge to modify programs. This course fills that knowledge gap.

Instead of using an assembler, we will directly use the x64dbg debugger to learn assembly language. That is right — we will write our own assembly code inside the x64dbg debugger itself. You will learn Assembly Language from the ground up, starting as a complete beginner with zero prior knowledge.

We will use techniques that allow you to:

Modify existing code
Overwrite existing code
Modify memory segments to insert data
Create new functions
Exploit code caves
Add new functionality to existing programs
And more...

This "black art" is not widely taught, and there are no existing courses elsewhere that coherently combine all the knowledge of assembly and reverse engineering. Most courses focus separately on Assembly or Reverse Engineering. Many reverse engineering courses do not cover the background assembly language from a software hacker's perspective. Similarly, almost all Assembly Language courses teach you how to write programs from scratch rather than how to modify existing programs to add new functionality using a debugger like x64dbg.

The knowledge you gain will give you an advantage as a security researcher, malware analyst, or student of software security. It will also benefit programmers who want to understand how programs run internally and how to extend program functionality without having access to the source code.

Go ahead and enroll now — I will see you inside!