I’ve been playing around with a selection of fun reversing tooling recently and thought it might be fun to go through a basic challenge to escalate privileges via a vulnerable executable. The first tool we’re going to use is gdb but we’re going to extend its capabilities significantly with pwndbg. […]
Recently I’ve had more than the average spam arriving in the inbox of my ‘throwaway’ account. It’s managing to get through the spam filters of Google, which is odd as generally I’d say they do a fair job in cleansing this sort of thing. The first thing I noted is […]
Who doesn’t enjoy a little reverse engineering? This Hack the Box reversing challenge is listed as ‘Easy’, and wants us to ‘find the password’. Let’s dive in… After unzipping the contents of the challenge we have a single ELF binary called exatlon_v1. It’s one we can’t immediately disassemble either, so […]