https://jehuamanna.com/posts/Recent content in Posts on jehuamannaHugoen-usThu, 28 May 2026 07:07:07 +0530https://jehuamanna.com/posts/what-makes-reversing-special/Thu, 28 May 2026 07:07:07 +0530https://jehuamanna.com/posts/what-makes-reversing-special/<p>I am a mechanical engineer by education, software engineer by profession. I had developed an interest in reversing, crackmes, packers, unpackers, crypters, protectors, shellcoding, binary analysis, malware analysis, binary exploitation, computer viruses, assembly language, C and C++ languages, obfuscation, encryption, steganography, and many more — a beautiful world of reverse engineering. I used to play CTFs solo and in teams.</p> <p>Unfortunately, I had to keep all these hobbies aside and do something real for a living. This shift made me stay away from my passion for more than 12 years. But the desire never died.</p>https://jehuamanna.com/posts/reversing-blog-bookmarks/Thu, 21 May 2026 07:07:07 +0530https://jehuamanna.com/posts/reversing-blog-bookmarks/<p>Every craft has its mentors, and in reverse engineering many of mine live on personal blogs rather than in classrooms. These are some of the bookmarks I keep coming back to — the writers whose work pushes me to learn more, dig deeper, and stay curious. If you are starting your own journey, I hope they inspire you the way they inspire me.</p> <h2 id="dr4k0nia"><a href="https://dr4k0nia.github.io">dr4k0nia</a></h2> <p>dr4k0nia is a developer and reverse engineer with a sharp focus on the .NET ecosystem. The blog walks through real malware samples like RedLine Stealer and ArechClient2, unpacking and deobfuscating them, and explains the offensive and defensive sides of techniques such as API hashing and string encryption. It even introduces custom tooling like HInvoke for calling .NET runtime functions using only hashes. If you want to understand how .NET malware hides and how to peel it apart, this is a goldmine.</p>https://jehuamanna.com/posts/why-reversing/Wed, 04 Jun 2025 07:07:07 +0530https://jehuamanna.com/posts/why-reversing/<h2 id="how-did-it-get-started">How did it get started?</h2> <p>During my university days 15 years ago while I was studying mechanical engineering, I got introduced to a CTF contest. It was a beginner-level CTF, and as a part of the preparation kit, they handed over a bunch of resources. Among them, one was <a href="https://forum.tuts4you.com/files/file/1307-lenas-reversing-for-newbies/">Lena&rsquo;s Reversing for Newbies</a> tutorials. Even though I was not able to complete all 40 lessons, I gained some insights on what it means to understand software from the other side.</p>