Accelerated macOS Core Dump Analysis: Training Course Transcript with LLDB Practice Exercises

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The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training with 12 step-by-step exercises. Learn how to analyze app crashes and freezes, navigate through process core memory dump space and diagnose corruption, memory leaks, CPU spikes, blocked threads, deadlocks, wait chains, and much more. We use a unique and innovative pattern-driven analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. The training consists of practical step-by-step exercises using Xcode and LLDB environments, highlighting more than 30 analysis patterns from Software Diagnostics Institute diagnosed in ARM64 process core memory dumps. The training also includes an overview of relevant similarities and differences between Windows and macOS user space memory dump analysis useful for engineers with a Wintel background and the relevant ARM64 disassembly tutorial. The course is thoroughly updated for the latest macOS version and M2 platform. The primary audience for this training is software technical support and escalation engineers who analyze crash reports and memory dumps, quality assurance and software engineers who test and debug macOS software, security and vulnerability researchers, and malware and memory forensics analysts who have never used LLDB for the analysis of computer memory. About the Author Presentation Slides and Transcript Core Dump Collection ARM64 Disassembly Practice Exercises Exercise X0 Exercise X1 Exercise X2 Exercise X3 Exercise X4 Exercise X5 Exercise X6 Exercise X7 Exercise X8 Exercise X9 Exercise X10 Exercise X11 Exercise X12 App Source Code App0 App1 App2 App3 App4 App5 App6 App7 App8 App9 App10 App11