The method that this tool uses is a simple one that opens a location in its address space with a call to VirtualAlloc with permissions of read, write, and execute. VirualAlloc is a Windows specific ...

Shellcoding is a technique that is executed by many red teams and used in penetration testing and real-world attacks. Books on shellcode can be complex, and writing shellcode is perceived as a kind of ...

A stageless payload embeds the final shellcode directly into itself. Think of it as a packaged app that executes the shellcode in a single-step process. In previous tasks, we embedded an executable ...

Only a few bytes in the PE header, such as e_lfanew, RVA of Import Directory, are essential to complete the loading process. Therefore, other bytes can be overwritten with random ones to hide PE ...

Shellcode injection is a technique often used in exploitation scenarios to execute arbitrary code within a target process. In this write-up, we'll walk through a lab exercise where we successfully ...

Reverse connection shellcode makes a connection from a hacked system to a different system where it can be caught using network tools such as netcat. Once the shellcode is connected, it spawns an ...

In a previous post we provided some background on the !exploitable Crash Analyzer which was released earlier this year. One of the things that we didn’t mention is that !exploitable is just one of the ...