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Introduction

Last weekend I had some time so I wanted to have a look at a reversing challenge which you can find here:

https://www.ethicalhacker.net/features/special-events/reverse-engineering-101-newbie-contest-webcast-elearnsecurity

Reverse Engineering 101 Contest Steps

1. Get the exe to be hacked
2. Break it open and Read more

In this post, we'll look at an application reversing challenge from HTS (hackthissite.org) resembling a real-life protection scheme. Put simple, the program creates a key for your username, and compares it to the one you enter. The goal of the HTS challenge is to create a key generator, but I just want to demonstrate how to retrieve the password. Read more

Recently I played with an older CVE (CVE-2008-0532, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489463, by FX) and I was having trouble debugging the CGI executable where the vulnerable function was located. Read more

A few days ago a friend approached me and asked how he could see the import address table under immunity debugger and if this could be done using the command line. I figured this would be a good time to take a look at what the IAT is, how we can list the IAT and what common reversing hurdles could be with regards to the IAT. Read more

Today we will have a look at a CTF binary from HITB pre qualifications CTF 2011. This is an interesting binary to reverse because Vectored Exception Handling (VEH) was used in the challenge... Read more

March 21th I was in Paris for the annual Honeynet Workshop. For the first time this year there was a conference day accessible to the general public. Moreover, I didn't have to pay the registration fee since I successfully completed one of the Honeynet Forensics challenges. The day was split in 4 sessions and had talks covering the Honeynet projects, malware, and ethical and legal considerations of tracking botnets and eventual take-downs. Read more

Aloha, Again I stumbled upon a nice reverse-me, binary200 from the Codegate 2011 CTF. And again there are some really interesting anti-debugging tricks implemented, so I decided to produce another video. Read more

A while ago I stumbled upon an awesome write-up of a very nice CTF challenge created by sapheads: http://hackerschool.org/DefconCTF/17/B300.html I love cartoons, and I love reversing, so I decided to play a little bit with that binary (b300.exe) which was a lot of fun. Because some interesting anti-debugging tricks were implemented into the binary... Read more

Interested in capturing, documenting and analyzing scans and malicious activity, Corelan Team decided to set up a honeypot and put it online. In the first week of december 2010, Obzy built a machine (default Windows XP SP3 installation, no patches, firewall turned off), named it "EGYPTS-AIRWAYS", set up a honeypot + some other monitoring tools, and connected it to the internet. Read more

This morning, my generic attachment filter for MS Exchange reported that about 100 emails were put in quarantine because they contained a small zip file. When looking inside the zip file, I found a small pdf file… I immediately figured this file was up to no good, so it was time to get my hands dirty :) Read more