HITB 2011 CTF – Reversing Vectored Exception Handling (VEH)

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Introduction

Today we will have a look at a CTF binary from HITB pre qualifications CTF 2011:

http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2011ams/?p=1333

 

This is an interesting binary to reverse because Vectored Exception Handling (VEH) was used in the challenge. As this was new to me, I documented how it works and wanted to share a short reversing write-up of the binary.

You can download the binary (windows_challenge.exe) here

 

Thanks to skier_ and the HITB crew for generating such an awesome CTF binary.

Come along………..and enjoy!

Fancy

 

Note: I used windows XP SP3 so maybe the addresses here in this video may differ from the addresses on your box.

Video

You can watch a full screen version here or download the video here


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