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The best resources for learning exploit development

Taken from http://www.pentest.guru/index.php/2016/01/28/best-books-tutorials-and-courses-to-learn-about-exploit-development/

Exploit development is considered to be the climax in the learning path of an ethical hacker or security professional. It is strongly advisable to have mastered the basics before delving into this topic. Exploit development is hard and it’s not something you learn at school or university (usually), not something any of your geek friends will talk about all day long. Only those who are brave to study hard can achieve the joy of controlling the EIP, popping a shell and taking control of a machine while the oblivious user yells at Microsoft for the nth crash of his beloved program.

What are the prerequisites for learning about exploit development?

Well, if you want to comprehend and hopefully start developing your own exploits you should have at least a basic knowledge of x86/64 bit system architecture (Windows, Linux or Mac according to your target), low level programming, possibly assembly, C/C++ or Python is fine as well for many tasks, then you should have in mind how the computer memory works (RAM), the concept of stack, heap, CPU registers, the most common operations, system calls, segmentation fault, buffer overflow, race condition and so on. You also should be familiar with disassemblers and a background in reverse engineering or malware analysis may be useful before starting to develop your own exploits.

Let’s see some resources that can help you to be prepared before attempting the big jump onto the high level world of exploit development, the Olympus of the Godly Hackers.

x86/64 bit system architecture: Introductory Intel x86: Architecture, Assembly, Applications, & Alliteration

Introductory Intel x86-64: Architecture, Assembly, Applications, & Alliteration

Intermediate Intel x86: Architecture, Assembly, Applications, & Alliteration

Assembly language: http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/

Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux

The Art of Assembly Language

Windows Assembly Language Megaprimer

Assembly Language Megaprimer for Linux

C/C++: C Programming Absolute Beginner’s Guide

The C Programming Language

Introduction to Computer Science CS50x

Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++

C++ Primer

Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example

Python: Python has a wonderful official documentation, apart from that you can use the following books/courses:

Learn Python the hard way

How to think like a computer scientist

Learning Python

Introduction to computer science and programming using Python MITx 6.00.1x

When you feel comfortable with the prerequisites, then you can start learning exploit development following these great resources!

I compiled a list of books, tutorials, courses, tools and vulnerable applications that you can use for your study.

BOOKS Hacking – The art of exploitation A bug Hunter’s Diary: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software Security The Shellcoder’s Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes Sockets, shellcode, Porting, and coding: reverse engineering Exploits and Tool coding for security professionals Writing Security tools and Exploits Buffer overflow attacks: Detect, exploit, Prevent Metasploit toolkit for Penetration Testing, exploit Development, and vulnerability research

TUTORIALS Corelan.be

Opensecuritytraining.info http://opensecuritytraining.info/Exploits1.html http://opensecuritytraining.info/Exploits2.html Securitytube.net http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=7 exploit research megaprimer http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=4 buffer overflow exploitation for linux megaprimer http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=3 Format string vulnerabilities megaprimer

Massimiliano Tomassoli’s blog http://expdev-kiuhnm.rhcloud.com/2015/05/11/contents/ Samsclass.info https://samsclass.info/127/127_F15.shtml

Securitysift.com http://www.securitysift.com/windows-exploit-development-part-1-basics/ http://www.securitysift.com/windows-exploit-development-part-2-intro-stack-overflow/ http://www.securitysift.com/windows-exploit-development-part-3-changing-offsets-and-rebased-modules/ http://www.securitysift.com/windows-exploit-development-part-4-locating-shellcode-jumps/ http://www.securitysift.com/windows-exploit-development-part-5-locating-shellcode-egghunting http://www.securitysift.com/windows-exploit-development-part-6-seh-exploits http://www.securitysift.com/windows-exploit-development-part-7-unicode-buffer-overflows Justbeck.com

http://www.justbeck.com/getting-started-in-exploit-development/

0xdabbad00.com

http://0xdabbad00.com/2012/12/09/hurdles-for-a-beginner-to-exploit-a-simple-vulnerability-on-modern-windows/

fuzzysecurity.com

Part 1: Introduction to Exploit Development Part 2: Saved Return Pointer Overflows Part 3: Structured Exception Handler (SEH) Part 4: Egg Hunters Part 5: Unicode 0x00410041 Part 6: Writing W32 shellcode Part 7: Return Oriented Programming Part 8: Spraying the Heap [Chapter 1: Vanilla EIP] Part 9: Spraying the Heap [Chapter 2: Use-After-Free] sploitfun.wordpress.com

https://sploitfun.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/linux-x86-exploit-development-tutorial-series/

sneakerhax.com

http://sneakerhax.com/jumping-into-exploit-development/

community.rapid7.com

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2012/07/05/part-1-metasploit-module-development–the-series

resources.infosecinstitute.com

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/debugging-fundamentals-for-exploit-development/

rafayhackingarticles.net

http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2011/07/from-minor-bug-to-zero-day-exploit.html

Smashing the stack for fun and for profit: revived

Automating format string exploits

IT-Sec catalog 2.0 (Exploit development) by Arthur Gerkis

NCCGroup.trust

https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blogs/2016/june/writing-exploits-for-win32-systems-from-scratch/

Desc0n0cid0.blogspot.it

https://desc0n0cid0.blogspot.it/2016/09/stack-based-buffer-overflow.html https://desc0n0cid0.blogspot.it/2016/09/stack-based-buffer-overflow_28.html https://desc0n0cid0.blogspot.it/2016/09/stack-based-buffer-overflow_29.html https://desc0n0cid0.blogspot.it/2016/10/part-4-stack-based-buffer-overflow.html

Stack Based Overflow Articles.

Win32 Buffer Overflows (Location, Exploitation and Prevention) – by Dark spyrit [1999] Writing Stack Based Overflows on Windows – by Nish Bhalla’s [2005] Heap Based Overflow Articles.

Third Generation Exploitation smashing heap on 2k – by Halvar Flake [2002] Exploiting the MSRPC Heap Overflow Part 1 – by Dave Aitel (MS03-026) [September 2003] Exploiting the MSRPC Heap Overflow Part 2 – by Dave Aitel (MS03-026) [September 2003] Windows heap overflow penetration in black hat – by David Litchfield [2004] Kernel Based Exploit Development Articles.

How to attack kernel based vulns on windows was done – by a Polish group called “sec-labs” [2003] Sec-lab old whitepaper Sec-lab old exploit Windows Local Kernel Exploitation (based on sec-lab research) – by S.K Chong [2004] How to exploit Windows kernel memory pool – by SoBeIt [2005] Exploiting remote kernel overflows in windows – by Eeye Security Kernel-mode Payloads on Windows in uninformed – by Matt Miller Exploiting 802.11 Wireless Driver Vulnerabilities on Windows BH US 2007 Attacking the Windows Kernel Remote and Local Exploitation of Network Drivers Exploiting Comon Flaws In Drivers I2OMGMT Driver Impersonation Attack Real World Kernel Pool Exploitation Exploit for windows 2k3 and 2k8 Alyzing local privilege escalations in win32k Intro to Windows Kernel Security Development There’s a party at ring0 and you’re invited Windows kernel vulnerability exploitation Windows memory protections Introduction Articles.

Data Execution Prevention /GS (Buffer Security Check) /SAFESEH ASLR SEHOP Windows memory protections Bypass Methods Articles.

Third Generation Exploitation smashing heap on 2k – by Halvar Flake [2002] Creating Arbitrary Shellcode In Unicode Expanded Strings – by Chris Anley Advanced windows exploitation – by Dave Aitel [2003] Defeating the Stack Based Buffer Overflow Prevention Mechanism of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server – by David Litchfield Reliable heap exploits and after that Windows Heap Exploitation (Win2KSP0 through WinXPSP2) – by Matt Conover in cansecwest 2004 Safely Searching Process Virtual Address Space – by Matt Miller [2004] IE exploit and used a technology called Heap Spray Bypassing hardware-enforced DEP – by Skape (Matt Miller) and Skywing (Ken Johnson) [October 2005] Exploiting Freelist[0] On XP Service Pack 2 – by Brett Moore [2005] Kernel-mode Payloads on Windows in uninformed Exploiting 802.11 Wireless Driver Vulnerabilities on Windows Exploiting Comon Flaws In Drivers Heap Feng Shui in JavaScript by Alexander sotirov [2007] Understanding and bypassing Windows Heap Protection – by Nicolas Waisman [2007] Heaps About Heaps – by Brett moore [2008] Bypassing browser memory protections in Windows Vista – by Mark Dowd and Alex Sotirov [2008] Attacking the Vista Heap – by ben hawkes [2008] Return oriented programming Exploitation without Code Injection – by Hovav Shacham (and others ) [2008] Token Kidnapping and a super reliable exploit for windows 2k3 and 2k8 – by Cesar Cerrudo [2008] Defeating DEP Immunity Way – by Pablo Sole [2008] Practical Windows XP2003 Heap Exploitation – by John McDonald and Chris Valasek [2009] Bypassing SEHOP – by Stefan Le Berre Damien Cauquil [2009] Interpreter Exploitation : Pointer Inference and JIT Spraying – by Dionysus Blazakis[2010] Write-up of Pwn2Own 2010 – by Peter Vreugdenhil All in one 0day presented in rootedCON – by Ruben Santamarta [2010] DEP/ASLR bypass using 3rd party – by Shahin Ramezany [2013] Typical windows exploits Real-world HW-DEP bypass Exploit – by Devcode Bypassing DEP by returning into HeapCreate – by Toto First public ASLR bypass exploit by using partial overwrite – by Skape Heap spray and bypassing DEP – by Skylined First public exploit that used ROP for bypassing DEP in adobe lib TIFF vulnerability Exploit codes of bypassing browsers memory protections PoC’s on Tokken TokenKidnapping . PoC for 2k3 -part 1 – by Cesar Cerrudo PoC’s on Tokken TokenKidnapping . PoC for 2k8 -part 2 – by Cesar Cerrudo An exploit works from win 3.1 to win 7 – by Tavis Ormandy KiTra0d Old ms08-067 metasploit module multi-target and DEP bypass PHP 6.0 Dev str_transliterate() Buffer overflow – NX + ASLR Bypass SMBv2 Exploit – by Stephen Fewer TRAININGS Opensecuritytraining.info

http://opensecuritytraining.info/Exploits1.html http://opensecuritytraining.info/Exploits2.html

Module 12 of Advanced penetration testing cource on Cybrary.it

https://www.cybrary.it/course/advanced-penetration-testing/

Securitytube.net

http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=7 research megaprimer http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=4 exploitation for linux megaprimer http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=3 Format string vulnerabilities megaprimer infiniteskills.com

http://www.infiniteskills.com/training/reverse-engineering-and-exploit-development.html

COURSES Corelan https://www.corelan-training.com

Offensive Security https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-training/advanced-windows-exploitation/ AWE (Advanced Windows Exploitation)

SANS https://www.sans.org/course/advance-exploit-development-pentetration-testers SANS SEC760: Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers Ptrace Security http://www.ptrace-security.com/training/courses/advanced-software-exploitation/ Advanced Software Exploitation Udemy https://www.udemy.com/windows-exploit-development-megaprimer/learn/#/ Windows exploit Development Megaprimer by Ajin Abraham VIDEOS

LiveOverflow Youtube channel

TOOLS IDA Pro – Windows disassembler and debugger, with a free evaluation version. OllyDbg – An assembly-level debugger for Windows executables. WinDbg – Windows debugger Mona.py – Immunity debugger helper angr – Platform-agnostic binary analysis framework developed at UCSB’s Seclab. BARF – Multiplatform, open source Binary Analysis and Reverse engineering Framework. binnavi – Binary analysis IDE for reverse engineering based on graph visualization. Bokken – GUI for Pyew and Radare. Capstone – Disassembly framework for binary analysis and reversing, with support for many architectures and bindings in several languages. codebro – Web based code browser using clang to provide basic code analysis. dnSpy – .NET assembly editor, decompiler and debugger. Evan’s Debugger (EDB) – A modular debugger with a Qt GUI. GDB – The GNU debugger. GEF – GDB Enhanced Features, for exploiters and reverse engineers. hackers-grep – A utility to search for strings in PE executables including imports, exports, and debug symbols. Immunity Debugger – Debugger for malware analysis and more, with a Python API. ltrace – Dynamic analysis for Linux executables. objdump – Part of GNU binutils, for static analysis of Linux binaries. PANDA – Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis PEDA – Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB, an enhanced display with added commands. pestudio – Perform static analysis of Windows executables. Process Monitor – Advanced monitoring tool for Windows programs. Pyew – Python tool for malware analysis. Radare2 – Reverse engineering framework, with debugger support. SMRT – Sublime Malware Research Tool, a plugin for Sublime 3 to aid with malware analyis. strace – Dynamic analysis for Linux executables. Udis86 – Disassembler library and tool for x86 and x86_64. Vivisect – Python tool for malware analysis. X64dbg – An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows. afl – American Fuzzy Lop fuzzer gef – enhanced gdb debugger honggfuzz – general purpose fuzzer libheap – python gdb library for examining glibc heap (ptmalloc) pwndbg – enhanced gdb framework for exploit development pwntools – exploit development and CTF toolkit qira – parallel, timeless debugger ropper – rop gadget finder rp++ – rop gadget finder xrop – rop gadget finder shellnoob – shellcode writing helper shellsploit – exploit development toolkitSploitKit – a suite of cli tools to automate the tedious parts of exploit development ROP Injector – rop injector HEAP EXPLOITATION TECHNIQUES

https://github.com/shellphish/how2heap

VULNERABLE APPLICATIONS Exploit-exercises.com https://exploit-exercises.com/protostar/ Protostar https://exploit-exercises.com/fusion/ Fusion StackSmash – A collection of toy programs for teaching buffer overflow vulnerabilities CTF-Workshop – challenges for binary exploitation workshop28 hacking sites to practise your skills in a legal wayhttps://www.peerlyst.com/blog-post/practise-your-infosec-skill-on-these-legal-28-hacking-sites

EXPLOITS DATABASE

https://www.exploit-db.com https://www.milw00rm.com http://0day.today https://packetstormsecurity.com http://www.securityfocus.com http://www.windowsexploits.com http://iedb.ir http://www.macexploit.com