In November of last year, I took the OffSec EXP-401 Advanced Windows Exploitation class (AWE) at Black Hat MEA. While most of the blog posts out of there focus on providing an OSEE exam review, this blog post aims to be a day-by-day review of the AWE course content. OffSec Exp-401 (AWE) During the first […]

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Recently, a threat actor (TA) known as SpyBot posted a tool, on a Russian hacking forum, that can terminate any antivirus/Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR/XDR) software. IMHO, all the hype behind this announcement was utterly unjustified as it is just another instance of the well-known Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack technique: where a […]

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Last month, during Ekoparty, Blue Frost Security published a Windows challenge. Since having a Windows exploitation challenge, is one of a kind in CTFs, and since I’ve found the challenge interesting and very clever, I’ve decided to post about my reverse engineering and exploitation methodology. Challenge Requests Only Python solutions without external libraries will be […]

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In case you’re wondering why I’m not posting as regularly as before, with the new year, I’ve finally transitioned into a fully offensive vulnerability research and exploit development role at Exodus Intelligence that fulfilled my career dream (BTW, we’re currently hiring). In the last couple of months, I’ve worked on some exciting and challenging bugs. […]

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With this blog post I’d like to sum up my year-long Windows Drivers research; share and detail my own methodology for reverse engineering (WDM) Windows drivers, finding some possible vulnerable code paths as well as understanding their exploitability. I’ve tried to make it as “noob-friendly” as possible, documenting all the steps I usually perform during […]

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As part of my continuous security research journey, during this year I’ve spent a good amount of time reverse-engineering Windows drivers and exploiting kernel-mode related vulnerabilities. While in the past there were (as far as I know), at least two good IDA plugins aiding in the reverse engineering process: DriverBuddy of NCC Group. win_driver_plugin of […]

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Last week SentinelOne disclosed a “high severity” flaw in HP, Samsung, and Xerox printer’s drivers (CVE-2021-3438); the blog post highlighted a vulnerable strncpy operation with a user-controllable size parameter but it did not explain the reverse engineering nor the exploitation phase of the issue. With this blog post, I would like to analyse the vulnerability […]

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Last month we (last & VoidSec) took the amazing Windows Kernel Exploitation Advanced course from Ashfaq Ansari (@HackSysTeam) at NULLCON. The course was very interesting and covered core kernel space concepts as well as advanced mitigation bypasses and exploitation. There was also a nice CTF and its last exercise was: “Write an exploit for System […]

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Assignment #7: Custom Shellcode Crypter Seventh and last SLAE’s assignment requires to create a custom shellcode crypter. Since I had to implement an entire encryption schema both in python as an helper and in assembly as the main decryption routine, I’ve opted for something simple. I’ve chosen the Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA) as it does […]

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Assignment #6: Polymorphic Shellcode Sixth SLAE’s assignment requires to create three different (polymorphic) shellcodes version starting from published Shell Storm’s examples. I’ve decided to take this three in exam: http://shell-storm.org/shellcode/files/shellcode-752.php – linux/x86 execve (“/bin/sh”) – 21 bytes http://shell-storm.org/shellcode/files/shellcode-624.php – linux/x86 setuid(0) + chmod(“/etc/shadow”,0666) – 37 bytes http://shell-storm.org/shellcode/files/shellcode-231.php – linux/x86 open cd-rom loop (follows “/dev/cdrom” symlink) […]

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Assignment #5: Metasploit Shellcode Analysis Fifth SLAE’s assignment requires to dissect and analyse three different Linux x86 Metasploit Payload. Metasploit currently has 35 different payloads but almost half of it are Meterpreter version, thus meaning staged payloads. I’ve then decided to skip meterpreter payloads as they involve multiple stages and higher complexity that will break […]

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Assignment #4: Custom Shellcode Encoder As the 4th SLAE’s assignment I was required to build a custom shellcode encoder for the execve payload, which I did, here how. Encoder Implementations I’ve decided to not relay on XORing functionalities as most antivirus solutions are now well aware of this encoding schema, the same reason for which […]

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Assignment #3: Egghunter This time the assignment was very interesting, here the requirements: study an egg hunting shellcode and create a working demo, it should be configurable for different payloads. As many before me, I’ve started my research journey with Skape’s papers: “Searching Process Virtual Address Space”. I was honestly amazed by the paper content, […]

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