Topic created on: April 23, 2011 14:56 CDT by absolutanon .

Hi,

as I noticed that almost any modern application/malware is using anti-debugging techniques and obfuscation, which makes it a lot of work to reverse, as first the protection has to be removed.

I would like to know if there are techniques, which make reversing a lot of more fun. It would be ideal if the target application cannot even know whether it is debugged.

What about using a virtual machine?

Is it that easy to open a com-port in the VM and to attach IDA? I'm generally interested in debugging applications, not operating systems.

(Please don't suggest Anti-debugging plugins, or only good ones ;) (they often fail))

What do you think is the best setup to debug/reverse applictions?

Thanks in advance!