Handcrafting Linux Shellcode

Crafting your own shellcode requires getting muddy with low level programming. One does not simply write machine code from memory. This blog post is my attempt at providing a template and tutorial of the shellcode creation process for a 32-bit Linux machine. The first step we will take is to write the task we want … Read more

ELF Binary Disassembly

Let us take a tour through a disassembly dump of an ELF binary and see if we can reverse engineer it. The following output is a result of: mech@dev:$ gcc -o distut distut.c mech@dev:$ objdump -d distut|grep main The reader is assumed to be familiar with the above output. I have removed the memory addresses … Read more