This document presents an introduction to x86_64 binary reverse engineering, the process of determining the operation of a compiled computer program without access to its source code, through a series of CrackMe programs. There are a lot of excellent tutorials out there, but they mostly focus on the 32-bit x86 platform. Modern computers are, almost without exception, 64-bit capable, so this tutorial introduces 64-bit concepts immediately. A CrackMe is an executable file which takes (typically...
