A curated list of awesome Windows Exploitation resources, and shiny things.
Table of Contents
Windows stack overflows
Windows heap overflows
Kernel based Windows overflows
Windows memory protections
Bypassing filter and protections
Typical windows exploits
Exploit development tutorial series
Corelan Team
Fuzzysecurity
Securitysift
Tools
Windows stack overflows
Stack Base Overflow Articles.
Win32 Buffer Overflows (Location, Exploitation and Prevention) - by dark spyrit [1999]
Writing Stack Based Overflows on Windows - by Nish Bhalla’s [2005]
Windows heap overflows
Heap Base 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 Windows overflows
Kernel Base 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
nalyzing 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
Windows memory protections Introduction Articles.
Data Execution Prevention
/GS (Buffer Security Check)
/SAFESEH
ASLR
SEHOP
Bypassing filter and protections
Windows memory protections Bypass Methods Articles.
Third Generation Exploitation smashing heap on 2k - by halvar Flake [2002]
chris anley wrote Creating Arbitrary Shellcode In Unicode Expanded Strings
Dave aitel advanced windows exploitation - [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
Exploit development tutorial series
Exploid Development Tutorial Series Base on Windows Operation System Articles.
Corelan Team
Exploit writing tutorial part 1 : Stack Based Overflows
Exploit writing tutorial part 2 : Stack Based Overflows – jumping to shellcode
Exploit writing tutorial part 3 : SEH Based Exploits
Exploit writing tutorial part 3b : SEH Based Exploits – just another example
Exploit writing tutorial part 4 : From Exploit to Metasploit – The basics
Exploit writing tutorial part 5 : How debugger modules & plugins can speed up basic exploit development
Exploit writing tutorial part 6 : Bypassing Stack Cookies, SafeSeh, SEHOP, HW DEP and ASLR
Exploit writing tutorial part 7 : Unicode – from 0x00410041 to calc
Exploit writing tutorial part 8 : Win32 Egg Hunting
Exploit writing tutorial part 9 : Introduction to Win32 shellcoding
Exploit writing tutorial part 10 : Chaining DEP with ROP – the Rubik’s Cube
Exploit writing tutorial part 11 : Heap Spraying Demystified
Fuzzysecurity
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]
Securitysift
Windows Exploit Development – Part 1: The Basics
Windows Exploit Development – Part 2: Intro to Stack Based Overflows
Windows Exploit Development – Part 3: Changing Offsets and Rebased Modules
Windows Exploit Development – Part 4: Locating Shellcode With Jumps
Windows Exploit Development – Part 5: Locating Shellcode With Egghunting
Windows Exploit Development – Part 6: SEH Exploits
Windows Exploit Development – Part 7: Unicode Buffer Overflows
Tools
Disassemblers, debuggers, and other static and dynamic analysis tools.
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.
IDA Pro - Windows disassembler and debugger, with a free evaluation version.
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.
OllyDbg - An assembly-level debugger for Windows executables.
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.
