Bachelor thesis on Reverse Engineering

[streppel]

Hey all,

since i wrote my bachelor thesis on the topic reverse engineering and this community taught me everything, i'd like to give back and upload the thesis.
It is targetted at beginners and contains an introduction to assembly,calling conventions, ida and the windows api for stuff like memory reading and dll injection.

The sourcecode of the applications can be found at https://github.com/streppelchen/Bach...isApplications .

The forums didn't allow me to upload it here so i uploaded it to filebeam.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gym5te4o1g7wmdf/Reverse%20Engineering-ownedcore.pdf?dl=0

Maybe it will help some of you, maybe it won't. I'm open to feedback

streppel

[Remus3]

Downloaded, will check it out when i have the time. Thank you, also fixed your title

[Parog]

Thank you for sharing your thesis, downloaded and will read.

[Miksu]

Thank you for this, i'm currently doing Lena151 Reverse Engineering courses. Maybe this will help me with IDA

[Robske]

Just to share the story, my thesis was also wow related. "How to detect automatized game-play in World of Warcraft"
The goal was to detect battleground bots by observing player behavior, it worked... well enough.

In a nutshell, it looked at pretty much all client observable things such as movement (changes in movement flags, facing changes and accuracy, jumping, hot paths, ...), social behavior (target behavior, chat/emotes, mounting, ...), battleground performance (scores, objectives...), combat behavior (spell counting, idle time, ...) and made a decision based on that whether or not that player is a bot.

How it made this decision is the interesting part, I've went from the simple things like detecting statistical anomalies (based on several months of doing battlegrounds) to more advanced techniques such as machine learning (which I failed to complete in the given time-frame, shit was over-fitting).

It has a pretty darn good accuracy after a couple of minutes of observing, still some false positives though.

TLDR: Blizzard just doesn't care about bots

[charles420]

Looks cool

[streppel]

Robske: i'd be interested in reading that,if you'd share it with me. Especially the machine learning part is interesting. i looked into it with a friend to write an AI to automate some simple games and have some general knowledge of that, but have not looked to deep into it.

[oldmanofmen]

Just to share the story, my thesis was also wow related. "How to detect automatized game-play in World of Warcraft"
The goal was to detect battleground bots by observing player behavior, it worked... well enough.

In a nutshell, it looked at pretty much all client observable things such as movement (changes in movement flags, facing changes and accuracy, jumping, hot paths, ...), social behavior (target behavior, chat/emotes, mounting, ...), battleground performance (scores, objectives...), combat behavior (spell counting, idle time, ...) and made a decision based on that whether or not that player is a bot.

How it made this decision is the interesting part, I've went from the simple things like detecting statistical anomalies (based on several months of doing battlegrounds) to more advanced techniques such as machine learning (which I failed to complete in the given time-frame, shit was over-fitting).

It has a pretty darn good accuracy after a couple of minutes of observing, still some false positives though.

TLDR: Blizzard just doesn't care about bots

Seriously cool idea for a thesis, that's genuinely the most interesting project I've heard of. I'm surprised you managed to get away with it though since it does involve reading WoW's memory which means it was against the ToS.

[Eryx]

Thank you for sharing this, I will definately read this when I get some spare time on my hands!