Curious if anyone has read this, I just ordered it off amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books
Book: Hacker Disassembling Uncovered
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I allready got mine, and I read the first 50 pages immidiately, its pretty decent, I will report more when I have read some more, I have very little time right now 
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3rd party review
First the good news: Very few books give a total picture of assembler code. Usually they are text books, but this is a real hands on book to learn lot of assembler structures. How does a programs laid out(executible file format), what library functions get statically linked, and how they are resolved, how does relocation works, how does loader loads etc., etc. You would find a long lasting knowledge from this book. IF YOU ARE A SYSTEM AND/OR KERNEL MODE PROGRAMMER, IT IS A MUST. But need to go thru the exercises...
Bad news is that it seems like the examples are not tried out with MS visual studio 6.0. You will find the code generation is different, due to some inline library code (ie, strcmp() and others). It does have other mistakes in the programming, as well as in the text. Stack based code execution at the end of the book does not seem to do its job.
But still it is an excellent book to read and go thru those examples to become fairly fluent with large assembler codes, and their working. WHEN THE INFORMATION BASE IS HUGE, LOOK FOR STRUCTURE, AVOID THE DETAIL UNTIL NEEDED, this is precisely this book follows. Nothing could be worse than ignorance, so go grab one !!!
I got the book, its not that great imo.
The majority of the book consists of a TON of c/c++ snippets and how it looks in disassembled version under IDA. I was hoping for a bit more "meat" and not just a book about how various constructs(if/then, switch etc) looks disassembled. Anyone with Visual C++ and IDA could learn this by simply compiling a program and looking at it in IDA or wdasm, dont really need a book for it.
There are other (shorter) section in the book that are better and have more interesting content(actual text and not just code/disassembler output). I liked the section about counteracting debuggers/disassemblers, but its not very long.
To sum it up I dont think this book is worth the money, you would be better off spending time reading fravia.org articles.
My advice to the author would be to cut down on the amount of code/disassembler page "bloat" and put in some more explanations. The text that is present is actually good, so expand on that.
Disclaimer: I admittingly only skimmed the middle parts of the book simply because I found the sheer amount of code snippets very offputting, so its possible there are some hidden gems there. In order to get anything out of this book expect to put in a LOT of work; its not what I would call a gentle introduction/overview :)
The majority of the book consists of a TON of c/c++ snippets and how it looks in disassembled version under IDA. I was hoping for a bit more "meat" and not just a book about how various constructs(if/then, switch etc) looks disassembled. Anyone with Visual C++ and IDA could learn this by simply compiling a program and looking at it in IDA or wdasm, dont really need a book for it.
There are other (shorter) section in the book that are better and have more interesting content(actual text and not just code/disassembler output). I liked the section about counteracting debuggers/disassemblers, but its not very long.
To sum it up I dont think this book is worth the money, you would be better off spending time reading fravia.org articles.
My advice to the author would be to cut down on the amount of code/disassembler page "bloat" and put in some more explanations. The text that is present is actually good, so expand on that.
Disclaimer: I admittingly only skimmed the middle parts of the book simply because I found the sheer amount of code snippets very offputting, so its possible there are some hidden gems there. In order to get anything out of this book expect to put in a LOT of work; its not what I would call a gentle introduction/overview :)