The Shellcode Lab

Ty Miller Pure Hacking july 21-22 july 23-24


$2000

Ends February 1

$2200

Ends June 1

$2400

Ends July 20

$2700

July 21-24


Overview

So you have found a vulnerable target. You throw your exploit at it with its default shellcode. You sit there with high hopes of compromising the system, but you don't get a shell. So what happened? There is a good chance the victim machine failed to connect back to you with the pre-packaged shellcode. Wouldn't it be great if you could write your own shellcode to bypass security controls such as firewalls and authenticated proxies to increase your exploitation success rate?

Well now you can! You will be provided with a "Virtual Shellcode Development Environment" that is designed to enable shellcode development across multiple platforms. Students will learn how to write shellcode for Linux, Mac 64-bit OSX and Windows. The development of the shellcode is presented using easy to learn techniques. Starting off with an introduction to different shellcoding techniques on each platform, an introduction to basic memory management and assembly, followed by creating simple shellcode to write to stdout and call functions.

This gives students a base understanding and practical experience to develop simple shellcode. The complexity is then increased to more useful shellcode such as command execution, dynamic Windows shellcode, setting up backdoor listeners using sockets, shellcode networking to remotely gain a command shell, and egg hunter shellcode to search through memory for our payload. All of this is done whilst holding your hand so that you don't miss a beat. Students will also learn about staged-loading shellcode to bypass security controls such as firewalls and authenticated proxies, and kernel level shellcode to perform privilege escalation.

Students are taught how to encode their shellcode using the Metasploit Exploit Framework (MSF), and insert it into exploits that will be used to show that their shellcode was successfully executed. They will learn how to use MSF to generate shellcode for a variety of platforms, as well as how to integrate their shellcode into MSF so that it is available to all Metasploit exploits.

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Trainer

Ty Miller is the Chief Technology Officer at Pure Hacking in Sydney Australia. He leads their specialist security team to ensure that his team is at the forefront of specialist information security services. Ty performs independent security research and presented at Black Hat 2008 in Las Vegas USA on his development of Reverse DNS Tunneling Shellcode. He is also a co-author of the book Hacking Exposed Linux 3rd Edition. Ty runs the popular shellcoding site Project Shellcode and was also involved in the design of the bootable CHAOS Linux cluster distribution.

Ty has been in the IT security area for around ten years and has run numerous training courses to clients around the world and at various security conferences. These courses include web application penetration testing, web application secure coding, and infrastructure penetration testing. These have been run both face-to-face and online.