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Corelan Training "Corelan Live – Win32 Exploit Development Bootcamp"
Introduction Starting this year, Corelan will be teaching live Win32 exploit development classes at various security conferences. Titled “Corelan Live – Win32 Exploit Development Bootcamp“, this 2-day instructor-led course will teach everything you need to know about writing exploits for a Win32 environment and exploiting stack based vulnerabilities. During the first day, all basics about […]
Malicious pdf analysis : from price.zip to flashplayer.exe
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 :)
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Offensive Security Exploit Weekend
Introduction I’m excited and honored to be able to announce that Sud0, one of our Corelan Team members, has won the Offensive Security Exploit weekend, an exploiting exercise only available to Offensive Security certified alumni. The challenge was built around a vulnerability in Foxit Reader. Each participant was pointed to a Proof of Concept exploit, […]
Death of an ftp client / Birth of Metasploit modules
Over the past few weeks, Corelan Team has given its undivided attention to fuzzing ftp client applications.
Using a custom built ftp client fuzzer, now part of the Metasploit framework, the team has audited several ftp clients and applications that use an embedded client ftp component. One example of such an application is a tool that would synchronize / backup data from a computer to a remote ftp server.
The 3 main audit/attack vectors that were used during the “project” were
send back overly long responses to ftp commands / requests sent by the ftp client to the server
send back a file/directory listing that contains overly long file/folder names
try to download a file that has an overly long filename.
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Exploit writing tutorial part 10 : Chaining DEP with ROP – the Rubik’s[TM] Cube
About 3 months after finishing my previous exploit writing related tutorial, I finally found some time and fresh energy to start writing a new article.
In the previous tutorials, I have explained the basics of stack based overflows and how they can lead to arbitrary code execution. I discussed direct RET overflows, SEH based exploits, Unicode and other character restrictions, the use of debugger plugins to speed up exploit development, how to bypass common memory protection mechanisms and how to write your own shellcode.
While the first tutorials were really written to learn the basics about exploit development, starting from scratch (targeting people without any knowledge about exploit development) you have most likely discovered that the more recent tutorials continue to build on those basics and require solid knowledge of asm, creative thinking, and some experience with exploit writing in general.
Today’s tutorial is no different. I will continue to build upon everything we have seen and learned in the previous tutorials. Today I will talk about ROP and how it can be used to bypass DEP (and ASLR)…
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Blackhat Europe 2010 Barcelona – Day 01
As some of you might know, I am currently attending Blackhat Europe (hosted in Barcelona this year). So I wanted to take the opportunity to fill you in on the details of this first day of briefings, and provide you with a short overview of the presentations I have attended today. I am most certainly […]
Exploit writing tutorial part 8 : Win32 Egg Hunting
Introduction Easter is still far away, so this is probably the right time to talk about ways to hunting for eggs (so you would be prepared when the easter bunny brings you another 0day vulnerability) In the first parts of this exploit writing tutorial series, we have talked about stack based overflows and how they […]
Exploit writing tutorial part 7 : Unicode – from 0x00410041 to calc
Finally … after spending a couple of weeks working on unicode and unicode exploits, I’m glad and happy to be able to release this next article in my basic exploit writing series : writing exploits for stack based unicode buffer overflows (wow – that’s a mouthful). You may (or may not) have encountered a situation […]
Exploit writing tutorial part 4 : From Exploit to Metasploit – The basics
In the first parts of the exploit writing tutorial, I have discussed some common vulnerabilities that can lead to 2 types of exploits : stack based buffer overflows (with direct EIP overwrite), and stack based buffer overflows that take advantage of SEH chains. In my examples, I have used perl to demonstrate how to build […]
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