REVERSE ENGINEERING

Catalog description

This course introduces the concepts for reverse engineering of both binary (compiles) and interpreted software. Key concepts and tools for analysis of the construction and operation of software are critical to the course. Students gain practical experience with assemblers and disassemblers, source code debugging, hex editors, code auditing, and different binary file formats. This course focuses on 32- and 64-bit architectures (Intel and AMD) for the Microsoft Windows platform. Alternative architectures, such as ARM and Power, are will be covered as contrasting options. (3 credits) fall, spring, summer