Igor Skochinsky

http://igorsk.blogspot.com

I work at Hex-Rays, developing IDA disassembler and Hex-Rays decompiler. I like reverse engineering, embedded devices and other low-level stuff.

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What's the relationship betweeen MS-DOS and XENIX?

ms-dos microsoft xenix asked Aug 14, 2019 at 22:07

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Reversing an FPGA circuit

hardware fpga asked Mar 20, 2013 at 17:27

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Problems throwing and catching exceptions on OS X with -fno-rtti

c++ osx exception shared-libraries rtti asked Feb 12, 2014 at 19:01

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16 votes

IBM mainframe classic executable file formats

ibm mainframe file-format asked Aug 2, 2019 at 8:46

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Shouldn't we help fix bad questions instead of mocking them?

discussion specific-question close-reasons asked Mar 22, 2013 at 12:47

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static const array gets initialized dynamically in MSVC?

c++ arrays visual-c++ static-initialization asked Mar 16, 2016 at 10:30

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11 votes

ld warning: stack subl instruction is too different from dwarf stack size on OS X

c++ osx linker clang dwarf asked Sep 20, 2016 at 15:36

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9 votes

Extracting a NAND flash dump with OOB data

binary-analysis firmware arm flash dump asked Mar 22, 2017 at 16:22

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8 votes

Compile multiple changed source files at once in GNU make

c gcc makefile make nmake asked May 18, 2011 at 15:19

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8 votes

Reverse engineering XKCD 1190

javascript websites asked Mar 27, 2013 at 1:16

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convert this x86 ASM to C?

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What is the booting process for ARM?

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ROM and RAM in ARM

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How can I analyze a potentially harmful binary safely?

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Unpacking binaries in a generic way

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What does `rep ret` mean?

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What is the difference between a Bootrom vs bootloader on ARM systems

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What is .cfi and .LFE in assembly code produced by GCC from c++ program?

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What does the MOVZBL instruction do in IA-32 AT&T syntax?

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How to know in which language/technology program (.exe) is written?

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What is the difference between unconditional branch and unconditional jump (instructions in MIPS)?

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What happens internally when a file path exceeds approx. 32767 characters in Windows?

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How were Western computer chips reverse-engineered in USSR?

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Decompiling Android application

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What should we do with manuals from the 80s?

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What's the purpose of the UD2 opcode in the Linux kernel?

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Why are things like RESET/MCLR active low on most ICs?

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Debugging malware that will only run as a service

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How to interpret the opcode manually?

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How to reverse engineer simple usb device [windows -> linux]

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What is a FLIRT signature?

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Is there a memory mapping api on windows platform, just like mmap() on linux?

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Decompiling .pyc files

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What kind of code would produce this assemby with loads of jump statements?

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Have several hundreds of thousands of people died because of the Chernobyl disaster?

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Static analysis of C++ binaries

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Are there any tools or scripts for identifying compression algorithms in executables?

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IDA EBP variable offset

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What is a "control-flow flattening" obfuscation technique?

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How is the 〒 postal code symbol pronounced?

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