Chapters

Chapters

Advanced Apple Debugging & Reverse Engineering

Fourth Edition · iOS 16, macOS 13.3 · Swift 5.8, Python 3 · Xcode 14

Before You Begin

Section 0: 6 chapters

Section I: Beginning LLDB Commands

Section 1: 10 chapters

1. Getting Started

2. Overview & Getting Help

3. Attaching With LLDB

4. Stopping in Code

5. Expression

6. Thread, Frame & Stepping Around

7. Image

8. Watchpoints

9. Persisting & Customizing Commands

10. Regex Commands

Section II: Understanding Assembly

Section 2: 3 chapters

11. Assembly Register Calling Convention

12. Assembly & Memory

13. Assembly & the Stack

Section III: Low Level

Section 3: 6 chapters

14. System Calls & Ptrace

15. Shared Libraries

16. Hooking & Executing Code With dlopen & dlsym

17. Hello, Mach-O

18. Mach-O Fun

19. Code Signing

Section IV: Custom LLDB Commands

Section 4: 8 chapters

20. Hello, Script Bridging

21. Debugging Script Bridging

22. Script Bridging Classes & Hierarchy

23. Script Bridging With Options & Arguments

24. Script Bridging With SBValue & Memory

25. SB Examples, Improved Lookup

26. SB Examples, Resymbolicating a Stripped ObjC Binary

27. SB Examples, Malloc Logging

Section V: DTrace

Section 5: 3 chapters

28. Hello, DTrace

29. Intermediate DTrace

30. Conclusion

Appendices

Section 6: 3 chapters

A. Appendix A: LLDB Cheat Sheet

B. Appendix B: Python Environment Setup

C. Appendix C: Helpful Code Snippets

iii. Dedications
Written by Walter Tyree

“To Nina, Carter, Icarus, Kitty, and Mattie who believed I could do this even when I didn’t.”

— Walter Tyree

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