List of resources for folks beginning their journey into reverse engineering. If appropriate, resources are labelled as B for Beginner, I for Intermediate, and A for Advanced. Feel free to join the slack and hop in the #ninjas-in-training channel for specific questions.

General Resources

Below you'll find Binary Ninja specific resources, but this section is for generic reverse engineering related content.

Online Books / Coursework

• Reverse Engineering for Beginners
• Reverse Engineering Malware 101
• RE 101 / NYU Poly
• RE 102 / NYU Poly
• Modern Binary Exploitation from RPISEC
• Reverse Engineering Workshop Week
• NSA Codebreaker Challenge Resources

YouTube/Twitch

• Syrillian (I) - Awesome long-form videos about Binary Ninja from Josh Watson, one of the most knowledgeable and helpful BN users.
• LiveOverflow (B) - Fantastic resource with high production quality and videos from in-depth to surface level.
• Gynvael (I) - Not only does Gynvael do Polish videos, but his english series is great as well.
• Murmus (I) - Murmus does CTF challenges and other security stuff in a livestream format

Challenges / Wargames

• Reversing.kr - Series of RE based wargame challenges.

Print Books

• Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
• Practical Reverse Engineering

Binary Ninja Specific

Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BinaryNinja/

Blog Posts

• Using and Writing Plugins
• Binary Ninja - It goes without saying that the official Binary Ninja blog would be all about Binary Ninja!
• Trail of Bits - Some of the best unofficial Binary Ninja content comes from the fine folks at Trail of Bits.
• De-Obfuscating Jump Chains
• Untangling Exotic Architectures with Binary Ninja

API references

• User Docs on plugins
• Script snippets
• Example Plugins
• Community Plugins
• Full API docs

Conference Talks

• Using Binary Ninja for Modern Malware Analysis Dr Jared DeMott Mr Josh Stroschein
• Malware Analysis and Automation using Binary Ninja: Erika Noerenberg
• Be a Binary Rockstar: Sophia DAntoine, Peter LaFosse, Rusty Wagner
• ripr: Run Slices of Binary Code from Python: Patrick Biernat
• Aiding Static Analysis: Discovering Vulnerabilities in Binary Targets through Knowledge Graph Inferences: John Toterhi - (code

CTF Writeup Links

• Pot of Gold – 37C3 CTF (2024)
• Number Game – Angstrom CTF (2022)
• Baby XBee 1-2 – Source Zero Con CTF (2022)
• baby-a-fallen-lap-ray – DEF CON CTF Quals (2021)
• Measles – evlz CTF (2020)
• 2000 cuts with Binary Ninja – Trail of Bits Blog (2016)
• FlareOn 2024 Challenge 10 BN Solution
• corMine 1 and 2