Security Sift

Introduction A while back I introduced the EggSandwich in my tutorial on Egghunting as a means to implement some basic integrity checks into the traditional Egghunter and overcome the problem of fragmented / corrupted shellcode. I recently took the opportunity to update my implementation so it could accomodate shellcode of any size. The code and a brief explanation follows. What is the EggSandwich? I ran into a situation when developing an exploit for an…

Introduction In this seventh installment of the Windows Exploit Development Series, I’ll introduce Unicode Buffer Overflows. We’ll start with a brief introduction to Unicode (what it is and why/how it’s used in Windows) and then jump right in to some example exploits. If you plan on following along, I recommend you have the following: A Windows environment (XP or Win 7 — my demos will be on the latter) Metasploit, Alpha2 or…