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A sequence of instructions performing a basic task packaged as a unit in a program.

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reverse engineering methodology

I'm new to reverse engineering and I'm following the on line course provided by the opensecurity.info site. The author provides a methodology for reverse engineering. He recommends to find a function of interest and pseudo code it. From the wording…
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Functions without a prologue and epilogue?

I was just wondering what exactly causes a function without a prologue/epilogue to be generated? If a program is compiled with just stdcall/cdecl convention, why is it that there are some calls which lead to a subroutine that doesn't have the…
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How to force run a method triggered with a series of keys in a game?

This is my first time asking something on SE and I'll do the best I can to provide all of the required information, but I apologize in advance if I'm not clear enough. I'm trying to reverse engineer a certain fighting game to be able to run the…
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How to find functions in games

There's one function I want to find in a game. When you fall through the game map you are "teleported" to specific xyz coordinates. I used to have the memory address of this function, but since then the game has been patched and it no longer works.…
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Save Valuable Time Reverse Engineering

As we know, time is the bane of reverse engineering. I am wanting to know how are some ways that I can save time in reverse engineering? I have taken some thought and I have been going through many programs and finding that even if the program is…
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Function return in machine code (by platform/compiler)

I am asking this question to gather a knowledge base. I know in x86-64, a machine code function can have only one function return, i.e., ret instruction. I know it can be compiler (GCC, clang, etc) and platform (MIPS, ARM, etc) specific. My question…
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Find functions that constantly calls another

Here is a brief list of all the places where this particular function gets called in IDA Pro. What this function does is return 1/60=0.01666 (the game tick's timestep) from a pointer, which value is used in the physics calculations of the game. I…
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Is it possible to get the formula out of a blackbox using neural network

I have a so. library which I know the "C" interface but I don't have access to the source code only the disassembled code which is hard to understand at least for me. I know the input parameters (including the expected ranges of the parameters) and…
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