Learn to use IDA Pro Free to do Reverse Engineering on Linux and Windows
InstructorPaul Chin, PhD
The curriculum utilizes a tiered structure, moving from basic skills through increasingly complex crackme challenges to build technical proficiency.
Learners engage with practical disassembly tasks and crackme challenges to apply static and dynamic analysis techniques.
Editorial course preview
These 4 complementary views highlight concrete, legible examples from the course presentation.
This screenshot displays the IDA Pro interface with synchronized views showing assembly instructions, decompiled pseudocode, and a function graph for analyzing binary code.
This screenshot displays the IDA Pro interface during a reverse engineering session, highlighting the Patch Bytes dialog used to modify binary instructions.
This screenshot displays the IDA Pro debugger environment, featuring assembly instructions, register values, loaded modules, and active threads for dynamic analysis.
This desktop screenshot displays a file explorer window listing various 'CrackMe' executable files, providing context for the static analysis exercises covered in the course.
The Linux version of IDA Free does not include a debugger, which limits the scope of dynamic analysis on that platform.
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The content aligns well with the goal of learning IDA Free for both Linux and Windows environments.