Blog Bookmarks: Voices That Inspire My Reversing Journey

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.

dr4k0nia

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.

cocomelonc

Run by Zhassulan Zhussupov — a self-described “cybersec enthusiast, mathematician, author, speaker, hacker” — this blog is one of the most practical malware development and analysis resources I know. Posts cover persistence mechanisms (including clever macOS LOLBin tricks), creative shellcode delivery, and low-level system exploitation, almost always paired with working code. It is the kind of place where reading a single post leaves you with something you can actually try yourself.

Exploit Reversing

Alexandre Borges publishes deeply technical material on vulnerability research, exploit development, and reverse engineering. Two series stand out: the Malware Analysis Series (MAS), a step-by-step educational program across Windows, Linux, shellcode, and macOS/iOS, and the Exploiting Reversing Series (ERS), which dissects modern CVEs and platforms like Hyper-V. These are not blog posts so much as small books — some run well over a hundred pages — and the depth is extraordinary.

Reverse With Me

This blog is all about learning reverse engineering the right way. It teaches x86 assembly from the ground up — registers, instructions, calling conventions, debugging — and thoughtfully curates reading lists, recommending classics like Dennis Yurichev’s Reverse Engineering for Beginners and Practical Malware Analysis. I especially appreciate how it distinguishes “cracking” from true reverse engineering and stresses understanding the journey from C source to assembly.

Reverse Engineering For Everyone (0xinfection)

“Reverse Engineering For Everyone!” is exactly what its name promises: a free, comprehensive tutorial series that aims to make reversing as simple as possible. It spans x86, x64, ARM-32, and ARM-64 — dozens of parts each — with a consistent rhythm of concept, debugging, and hands-on “hacking” exercises. It is one of the best on-ramps I have found for anyone who wants to start from zero across multiple architectures.

These five are only a slice of the community I am learning from, but they capture the spirit of it — generous people sharing hard-won knowledge for free. I will keep adding to this list as my journey continues.