Books

Good Start For The Lecture

• Hacking - The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson (link)
  • a bit old, explanations for Intel 32 bit binaries, but still a good book!
• Practical Binary Analysis by Dennis Andriesse (link)
  • use this more as a reference for specific topics
• Secure Coding in C and C++ by Robert C. Seacord (link)
  • don’t read this book completely, just go into a couple of chapters and get an overview

Further Reading

Reverse Engineering

• Reverse Engineering For Beginners by Dennis Yurichev (link) (not free anymore)
• Learning Linux Binary Analysis by Ryan “elfmaster” O’Neill (link)
• Practical Malware Analysis by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig (link)

Computer Systems and System Programming

• Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective by Randal E. Bryant and David R. O’Hallaron (link)
• Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk (link)

Forensics

• The Art of Memory Forensics: Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory
  by Michael Hale Ligh, Andrew Case, Jamie Levy, AAron Walters; Part III Linux Memory Forensics, p. 575ff (link)

Bug Hunting / Exploitation

• A Bug Hunter’s Diary by Tobias Klein (there is also a German version of the book) (link)
• Buffer Overflows und Format-String-Schwachstellen: Funktionsweisen, Exploits und Gegenmaßnahmen
  by Tobias Klein (old but gold; only used books available but you could check the libraries; only in German) (link)