Chapter 5. IMMUNITY DEBUGGER—THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

Now that we have covered how to build our own debugger and how to use a pure Python debugger in the form of PyDbg, it's time to explore Immunity Debugger, which has a full user interface as well as the most powerful Python library to date for exploit development, vulnerability discovery, and malware analysis. Released in 2007, Immunity Debugger has a nice blend of dynamic (debugging) capabilities as well as a very powerful analysis engine for static analysis tasks. It also sports a fully customizable, pure Python graphing algorithm for plotting functions and basic blocks. We'll take a quick tour of Immunity Debugger and its user interface to get us warmed up. Then we'll dig into using Immunity ...

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