Assembly Language Foundation Course for Ethical Hackers

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Who can join this course & what skills needed for this course

Chapter 2: Building the basics for assembly language programming

Lecture 1: Computer system working and the CPU role

Lecture 2: Internal components of the CPU

Lecture 3: What are the registers inside the CPU ?

Lecture 4: Flags of the CPU

Lecture 5: Flag Structure of the CPU

Lecture 6: Flags working in CPU

Lecture 7: Program's memory layout in the computer system

Lecture 8: How to view the stack of a program

Chapter 3: Hello World in Assembly

Lecture 1: Structure of the assembly program

Lecture 2: System calls Before Hello World in Assembly

Lecture 3: Writing our first Hello World program in assembly

Lecture 4: Compiling an assembly program in gcc

Lecture 5: Debugging our assembly program

Lecture 6: Using C library functions in assembly program

Chapter 4: Moving Data

Lecture 1: Defining the data in data section in assembly program

Lecture 2: Using static symbols in assembly programs

Lecture 3: How to define and use data in the bss section

Lecture 4: Moving data in Assembly programming

Lecture 5: Practical Demonstration of moving data in assembly

Lecture 6: More advanced data movements in assembly

Lecture 7: Accessing and moving indexed values in assembly

Lecture 8: Direct and indirect addressing in assembly

Lecture 9: Practical example of direct and indirect addressing in assembly

Lecture 10: Concept of indirect address pointer

Lecture 11: Accessing indexed memory locations in assembly

Lecture 12: How to create a stack frame in assembly

Lecture 13: Adding and removing data on stack in assembly

Lecture 14: Data exchange instructions in assembly

Lecture 15: Setting and clearing the flag bits Carry Flag

Lecture 16: Setting and clearning the Overflow Flag in assembly

Lecture 17: Setting and clearing the Parity Flag in assembly

Lecture 18: Setting and clearing the Sign Flag in assembly

Lecture 19: Setting and clearing the Zero Flag in assembly

Chapter 5: Controlling Execution flow in assembly

Lecture 1: Understanding EIP register in assembly

Lecture 2: Jump instruction in assembly

Lecture 3: what is the work of call instruction in assembly

Lecture 4: Conditional jump in indepth in assembly

Lecture 5: Using Zero flag as a conditional jump in assembly

Lecture 6: Using Overflow flag as conditional jump in assembly

Lecture 7: Using Parity flag as a conditional jump in assembly

Chapter 6: Using numbers in assembly programming

Lecture 1: Types of numbers which are used in assembly programming

Lecture 2: What are signed and unsigned integers and how unsigned integers are stored

Lecture 3: how unsigned integers are stored in memory

Lecture 4: Using unsigned integers in assembly program

Lecture 5: Concept of how a CPU stores the numbers in memory

Lecture 6: Practical demonstration of how CPU stores numbers in memory

Lecture 7: How to use signed numbers in assembly program

Lecture 8: SIMD registers concept in assembly

Lecture 9: MMX registers in assembly

Lecture 10: Using mmx registers in assembly to move integers

Lecture 11: Understanding SSE registers

Lecture 12: Using SSE registers in assembly

Lecture 13: What are BCD data types

Lecture 14: Storing BCD data types in memory

Lecture 15: How floating point numbers are moved

Lecture 16: Storing floating point numbers into memory

Lecture 17: Storing multiple float values at once

Chapter 7: Basic math functions in assembly

Lecture 1: Adding numbers in assembly

Lecture 2: Dealing with negative numbers in assembly

Lecture 3: Concept of detecting carry in addition operation

Lecture 4: Writing assembly program for detecting carry flag in addition operation

Lecture 5: Understanding overflow concept in addition arithmetic

Lecture 6: Practical demonstration of overflow in addition instruction in assembly

Lecture 7: Detecting overflow in signed integers addition in assembly

Lecture 8: Concept of add carry instruction in assembly

Lecture 9: Using ADC instruction in assembly

Lecture 10: How binary subtraction works

Lecture 11: Using sub instruction in assembly program

Lecture 12: Increment and decrement instruction in assembly

Lecture 13: Multiplication of two unsigned numbers in assembly

Lecture 14: Different ways of multiplications of signed numbers in assembly

Lecture 15: How division works in assembly

Lecture 16: Bit shifting in assembly programming

Lecture 17: Rotating bits in assembly programming

Lecture 18: Logical operations in assembly

Lecture 19: Using OR, AND and XOR logical operations in assembly programming

Chapter 8: Working with Strings

Lecture 1: How strings are moved in assembly ?

Lecture 2: Direction flag in string movement in assembly

Lecture 3: Movement of ESI and EDI pointers when DF flag is set in assembly program

Lecture 4: How REP instruction works in strings in assembly program

Lecture 5: Basics of comparing strings in assembly

Lecture 6: How big strings are compared with REP instruction in assembly

Lecture 7: LODS and STOS instructions in string movment in assembly programming

Lecture 8: Basic concept of how we can encrypt a string in assembly

Lecture 9: Encrypting a string in assembly program

Lecture 10: How to decrypt the encrypted string in assembly

Chapter 9: Using functions in assembly programming

Lecture 1: How to define a function in assembly programming

Lecture 2: Using a function in assembly programming

Lecture 3: Passing input values to functions in assembly

Lecture 4: what are function prolog and epilog with stack frame ?