🧬 Reverse Engineering Resources

📂Table of Contents

📘Books 🎓Courses 🧪Practice Platforms 🧷Hex Editors 📦Binary Format Tools 🔍Disassemblers 🧠Analysis Frameworks ⚙Bytecode Tools 🪝Import Rebuilding 🔎Dynamic Analysis 🐎Debugging Tools 🍏MacOS RE 📄Document Analysis 🧬Scripting for RE 📱Android RE 🧿YARA Rules 🛠Bonus Links

📘Books

🧠 Core theory + practical workflows

Reverse Engineering for Beginners

Free comprehensive PDF guide

Practical Malware Analysis

Essential malware analysis techniques

Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

Classic reversing fundamentals

Practical Reverse Engineering

Hands-on approach to RE

Gray Hat Hacking

Ethical hacking techniques

Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

Deep dive into exploitation

The IDA Pro Book

Master IDA Pro disassembler

Radare2 Book

Complete Radare2 framework guide

🎓Courses

🔥 Learn from the pros and top universities

Open Security Training – Intro to RE

Free comprehensive RE training

Lena's Reversing for Newbies

Classic beginner-friendly tutorials

Modern Binary Exploitation (RPISEC)

Advanced exploitation techniques

x86re.com Interactive RE Platform

Browser-based x86 RE playground

RPISEC Malware Analysis Course

University-level malware analysis

REcon Trainings

Professional RE conference training

🧪Practice Platforms

🎯 Learn by doing — RE challenges, CTFs, CrackMes

Crackmes.one

Large collection of reverse engineering challenges

Root Me – Cracking

Progressive cracking challenges

HackTheBox Reversing

Premium RE challenges and labs

Flare-on Challenge

Annual FireEye RE competition

Reversing.kr

Korean RE challenge platform

picoCTF

Beginner-friendly CTF challenges

🧷Hex Editors

HxD

Free Windows hex editor

010 Editor

Professional hex editor with templates

Hex Workshop

Advanced hex editing suite

HexFiend (macOS)

Fast macOS hex editor

hecate

Terminal-based hex editor

📦Binary Format Tools

CFF Explorer

PE file format explorer

PEStudio

PE file analysis tool

Detect It Easy (DIE)

Packer and compiler detection

Cerbero Profiler

Advanced binary analysis suite

MachoView (macOS)

Mach-O file format viewer

🔍Disassemblers & Decompilers

Ghidra

NSA's free software analysis suite

IDA Free / Pro

Industry standard disassembler

Binary Ninja

Modern binary analysis platform

Radare2

Open-source reverse engineering framework

Cutter

GUI for Radare2

Hopper

macOS/Linux disassembler

🧠Binary Analysis Frameworks

angr

Binary analysis platform with symbolic execution

Binary Analysis Platform (BAP)

OCaml-based binary analysis framework

z3 (Symbolic Solver)

Microsoft's theorem prover

⚙Bytecode Analysis

.NET: dnSpy

.NET assembly editor and debugger

Java: Bytecode Viewer

Java bytecode analysis suite

Java: JPEXS Decompiler

Flash and Java decompiler

Java: Procyon

Java metaprogramming toolkit

🪝Import Reconstruction

Scylla

Advanced import reconstruction tool

ImpRec

Classic import reconstruction

LordPE

PE file editor and rebuilder

🔎Dynamic Analysis

Process Hacker

Advanced process viewer

ProcMon / ProcExp

Microsoft Sysinternals suite

API Monitor

API monitoring and analysis

Wireshark

Network protocol analyzer

Noriben

Malware analysis sandbox

Volatility

Memory forensics framework

🐎Debugging Tools

x64dbg

Windows debugger for x64/x32

OllyDbg

Classic Windows debugger

WinDbg

Microsoft's kernel debugger

GDB (Linux)

GNU debugger

LLDB

LLVM debugger

QIRA

Timeless debugger

🍏Mac Decryption Tools

Class-Dump

Objective-C class interface dumper

AppEncryptor

iOS app encryption tool

readmem

macOS memory reading utility

📄Document Analysis

Didier Stevens PDF Tools

PDF analysis toolkit

Oletools

Microsoft Office document analysis

Origami PDF

PDF manipulation framework

🧬Scripting for RE

IDA Python Src

IDA Pro Python scripting

pefile (Python)

Python PE file parsing library

IDAPython Book

Complete IDA Python guide

HexRays IDA Plugin Contest

IDA Pro plugin development

📱Android Reverse Engineering

APKTool

Android APK reverse engineering tool

JADX

Dex to Java decompiler

dex2jar

Android dex to jar converter

Frida

Dynamic instrumentation toolkit

Objection

Mobile app security testing

MobSF

Mobile security framework

🧿YARA: Malware Detection Rules

YARA Docs

Official YARA documentation

yarGen – Rule Generator

Automatic YARA rule generation

YARA Cheatsheet

Quick reference for YARA rules

🛠Bonus Links

Top Ethical Hacking Books

Curated list of hacking books

Top Reverse Engineering Books

Best RE learning resources

Awesome Reverse Engineering GitHub

Comprehensive RE resource collection

Reverse Engineering Reddit

Active RE community

VX-Underground Malware Archive

Malware research collection

🧬Reverse Engineering Resources