One really cool reading about reverse engineering obfuscated binaries and protocols, getting around anti-debugger code, etc is this talk from Blackhat about rev

One really cool reading about reverse engineering obfuscated binaries and protocols, getting around anti-debugger code, etc is this talk from Blackhat about reverse-engineering Skype: https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06... Gives pretty good insight into what steps go into this kind of work.