Olly Debug Tutorial?

[Fred Harris]

Does anyone know a good recomendation for one.  Only time I ever used a stepping debugger to any extent was years ago with TASM.  I forget a lot of the details.  Understanding what I'm seeing in disassembled code is one of my main goals in learning masm.  I downloaded Olly Debug, but the doc file with it isn't really a tutorial.  That's why I'm asking.  I did a search and found a lot of results, but most seemed geared towards fokks with nefarious ends, which isn't where I'm coming from.

[fearless]

Unfortunately there is probably a lot of tutorials related to doing specific things with olly and not so much as basic how to or overviews.

I did find a few tutorials that appear to be mostly covering the basics of usage, without getting into any specifics like you mentioned. Hopefully they might help:

Tutorial #2 : Intro To Olly Debug - http://octopuslabs.io/legend/blog/archives/31.html
Tutorial #3: Using OllyDBG, Part 1 - http://octopuslabs.io/legend/blog/archives/115.html
Tutorial #4: Using Olly, Part 2 - http://octopuslabs.io/legend/blog/archives/258.html

The rest of the tutorials listed are more specific and dont relate to general usage, but from looking at those three, they appear quite well documented and laid out, hopefully enough to get you started.

Some handy keys to remember:

Program

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Program reset             Ctrl + F2
Close program             Alt + F2
Open EXE file             F3
Bring Olly to top         Alt + F5
Step into                 F7
Animate into              Ctrl + F7
Step over                 F8
Animate over              Ctrl + F8
Run program               F9
Execute till return       Ctrl + F9
Execute till user code    Alt + F9
Run trace into            Ctrl + F11
Stop execution            F12
Run trace over            Ctrl + F12
Stop anim. or tracing     Esc   

Windows

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Breakpoint window         Alt + B
CPU window                Alt + C
Modules window            Alt + E
Call stack window         Alt + K
Log window                Alt + L
Memory window             Alt + M
Patches window            Alt + P
Run Trace window          Alt + T
Quit Olly                 Alt + X
Maximize window           F5

[Fred Harris]

Thanks fearless.  That'll definitely get me started. 

[jj2007]

Fred,

Attached is the only manual I ever found. Most of the time I just use F7-F9, though :P

[Mikl__]

• Introducción al Cracking desde cero con OllyDbg (Ricardo Narvaja)
• Introduction to cracking with OllyDbg from zero (Ricardo Narvaja Tutorials)
• Введение в крэкинг с нуля, используя OllyDbg (сборник)

[greenozon]

Could anyone update the full 1-58 articles on Ollydbg from scratch please?
preferably in .chm format
in English
ideally with links to binaries that were used in the materials

[zedd151]

Could anyone update the full 1-58 articles on Ollydbg from scratch please?

Specifically what 1-58 articles are you referring to?
The links posted by Mikl__ (years ago) all seem to be referencing "cracking" (otherwise known as reverse engineering) at least those in Spanish - Discussion of which is not allowed here. 

[greenozon]

I"m not going to discuss it, dont worry
I'm looking for fresh links that were given here years ago (2016) but for some reasons links are dead

[jj2007]

Could anyone update the full 1-58 articles on Ollydbg from scratch please?

Excellent idea - go ahead, we always hoped a volunteer would show up one day