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- So a couple things. Bruce Dang’s book, while a little old, is still a great spot to get started. Another great book is Blue Fox by Maria Markstedter for ARM. From there, finding small binaries and just trying to get the “flow” is a good next step, for me this is largely renaming functions and variables and essentially trying to work the decompiled code into something readable, then you can find flaws.
So for the second thing, pulling the data off chips like that typically involves some specialized hardware, and you have to potentially deal with a bunch of cryptographic safeguards to read from the chip’s memory. Not impossible though, and there are not always good safeguards, but might be worth checking out some simpler programs and working up to it, or learning some basic hardware hacking to get an idea of how that process works.
- If you're specifically interested in reverse engineering for ARM-based systems (32 and 64 bit), this book is a pretty good introduction:
"Blue Fox: Arm Assembly Internals and Reverse Engineering" by Maria Markstedter
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Blue+Fox%3A+Arm+Assembly+Interna...
