This is mostly a reference for myself in my pwning endeavours. This contains my own write-ups/exploits of different challenges and useful exploit dev resources that helped me along the way. Maybe someone else also finds this useful ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

Note that this is a work in progress and will be updated continuously.

• My Write-ups
  • Protostar
    • Reversing and Exploiting Protostar Stack challenges
  • OverTheWire
    • Narnia
  • Vulnserver
  • Brainpan
• Windows Exploit development
  • Windows Stack overflows
  • Windows SEH overflows
  • Windows Heap overflows
  • Windows Egg Hunting
  • Windows Kernel based overflows
  • Windows Kernel Memory Corruption
  • Windows memory protections
  • Windows Shellcoding
• Linux Exploit development
  • Format Strings
  • Ret2libc
• Reverse Engineering
• Fuzzing
• Binary Exploitation Challenges

• Corelan – Exploit writing tutorial part 1 – Stack based overflows
• Corelan Exploit writing tutorial part 2 – Writing simple buffer overflow exploits
• Fuzzysecurity – Part 1: Introduction to Exploit Development
• Fuzzysecurity – Part 2: Saved Return Pointer Overflows
• Infosec Institute – Part 1: Introduction
• Infosec Institute – Part 2: Exploiting the stack overflow
• Infosec Institute – Part 3: Adding shellcode
• Security Sift – Part 1: Basics
• Security Sift – Part 2: Intro Stack Overflow
• Security Sift – Part 3: Changing offsets and rebased modules
• Security Sift – Part 4: Locating shellcode jumps
• Offensive Security – Quickzip stack bof 0day
• Sploitfun – Classic Stack Based Buffer Overflow

• Corelan – Part 3: SEH
• Corelan – Part 3b: Just another example
• Fuzzysecurity – Part 3: Structured Exception Handler (SEH)
• Infosec Institute – SEH Based Overflow Exploit Tutorial
• Infosec Institute – Writing SEH Exploits
• Security Sift – Part 6: SEH Exploits

• Fuzzysecurity – Part 8: Spraying the Heap
• Fuzzysecurity – What’s Going On Here b33f?
• Fuzzysecurity – Heap Overflows For Humans 101
• Fuzzysecurity – Heap Overflows For Humans 102
• Fuzzysecurity – Heap Overflows For Humans 102.5
• Fuzzysecurity – Heap Overflows For Humans 103
• Fuzzysecurity – Heap Overflows For Humans 103.5
• Infosec Institute –
• Heap Overflow: Vulnerability and Heap Internals Explained

• Fuzzysecurity – Egg Hunters
• Infosec Institute – Egghunter Exploitation Tutorial
• Security Sift – Part 5: Locating shellcode egghunting

• Whitehatters – Intro to Windows kernel exploitation 1/N: Kernel Debugging
• Whitehatters – Intro to Windows kernel exploitation 2/N: HackSys Extremely Vulnerable Driver
• Whitehatters – Intro to Windows kernel exploitation 3/N: My first Driver exploit
• Whitehatters – Intro to Windows kernel exploitation 3.5/N: A bit more of the HackSys Driver

• Remote Windows Kernel Exploitation - by Barnaby Jack [2005]
• windows kernel-mode payload fundamentals - by Skape [2006]
• exploiting 802.11 wireless driver vulnerabilities on windows - by Johnny Cache, H D Moore, skape [2007]
• Kernel Pool Exploitation on Windows 7 - by Tarjei Mandt [2011]
• Windows Kernel-mode GS Cookies and 1 bit of entropy - [2011]
• Subtle information disclosure in WIN32K.SYS syscall return values - [2011]
• nt!NtMapUserPhysicalPages and Kernel Stack-Spraying Techniques - [2011]
• SMEP: What is it, and how to beat it on Windows - [2011]
• Kernel Attacks through User-Mode Callbacks - by Tarjei Mandt [2011]
• Windows Security Hardening Through Kernel Address Protection - by Mateusz "j00ru" Jurczyk [2011]
• Reversing Windows8: Interesting Features of Kernel Security - by MJ0011 [2012]
• Smashing The Atom: Extraordinary String Based Attacks - by Tarjei Mandt [2012]
• Easy local Windows Kernel exploitation - by Cesar Cerrudo [2012]
• Using a Patched Vulnerability to Bypass Windows 8 x64 Driver Signature Enforcement - by MJ0011 [2012]
• MWR Labs Pwn2Own 2013 Write-up - Kernel Exploit - [2013]
• KASLR Bypass Mitigations in Windows 8.1 - [2013]
• First Dip Into the Kernel Pool: MS10-058 - by Jeremy [2014]
• Windows 8 Kernel Memory Protections Bypass - [2014]
• An Analysis of A Windows Kernel-Mode Vulnerability (CVE-2014-4113) - by Weimin Wu [2014]
• Sheep Year Kernel Heap Fengshui: Spraying in the Big Kids’ Pool - [2014]
• Exploiting the win32k!xxxEnableWndSBArrows use-after-free (CVE 2015-0057) bug on both 32-bit and 64-bit - by Aaron Adams [2015]
• Exploiting MS15-061 Microsoft Windows Kernel Use-After-Free (win32k!xxxSetClassLong) - by Dominic Wang [2015]
• Exploiting CVE-2015-2426, and How I Ported it to a Recent Windows 8.1 64-bit - by Cedric Halbronn [2015]
• Abusing GDI for ring0 exploit primitives - by Diego Juarez [2015]
• Duqu 2.0 Win32k exploit analysis - [2015]

• Data Execution Prevention
• /GS (Buffer Security Check)
• /SAFESEH
• ASLR
• SEHOP

• Corelan – Introduction to Win32 shellcoding

• Linux Format String Exploitation
• Infosec Institute – Format String Bug Exploration
• Automating format string exploits

• Linux exploit development part 3 - ret2libc by Sickness

• tuts4you – Reversing for Newbies

• Infosec Institute – Intro to fuzzing
• Infosec Institute – Fuzzer automation with spike
• Infosec Institute – Sulley Fuzzing Framework Intro
• Infosec Institute – Fuzzing Vulnserver: Discovering Vulnerable Commands: Part 1
• Infosec Institute – Fuzzing Vulnserver with Peach: Part 2
• Infosec Institute – Fuzzing Vulnserver with Sulley: Part 3
• Peachfuzzer – Tutorial
• evilsocket.net – Fuzzing with AFL-Fuzz, a Practical Example
• Infosec Institute – Fuzzing – Mutation vs. Generation
• FoxgloveSecurity – Fuzzing workflows; a fuzz job from start to finish

• exploit-exercises.com/protostar
• exploit-exercises.com/fusion
• smashthestack.org/
• www.vulnhub.com/entry/smashthetux-1,138
• github.com/kablaa/CTF-Workshop
• overthewire.org/wargames/narnia/
• overthewire.org/wargames/behemoth/
• www.thegreycorner.com/p/vulnserver.html