The second edition of The Ghidra Book is a current book-length route into Ghidra's analysis workflow. Choose it when a structured explanation of projects, functions, decompilation and extensions would help more than a short tool reference. Confirm the examples against the Ghidra release you install, because menus, processors and extension interfaces can change after publication.
Who should read it
Readers willing to practice on authorized sample binaries can use the chapters as a sequence, then reproduce one finding in the current Ghidra interface. Keep notes on the binary version and the evidence behind each interpretation.
Currency check
The publisher lists a 2026 second edition. That makes it more recent than the first edition, but does not guarantee every screen or API remains identical to a later Ghidra release. The publisher page is the source for edition and bibliographic details.
Requirements & evidence
- Resource type
- Book
- Category
- Unknown
- Host platforms
- Unknown
- Targets
- Unknown
- Level
- Beginner to advanced
- Author(s)
- Kara Nance, Chris Eagle
- Publisher
- No Starch Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Edition
- 2nd
- Focus
- Ghidra workflow and extension
- Source checked
- 2026-11-04T10:07:19.819979+00:00
Recent 2026 edition; individual screenshots/API details still follow the current release.
Primary sources
Source descriptions establish documented scope. They do not establish that every workflow has been reproduced by AI Craft Pad.