Hacking Binary Programs and Exploit Analysis

Adam J. Aviv is an assistant professor at the United States Naval Academy. He received his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania, and his research area is in mobile device authentication. He has worked and published on varied topics, including applied cryptography, network security, and electronic voting. He is perhaps best known for his analysis of vulnerabilities in graphical password on touch screen devices, so call "smudge attacks."

Unit 1: Understanding the Execution Stack and Binary Programs: 1. Binary Programs and Tools of Analysis, 2. C Programming Primer, 3. Hello Assembly and Reversing, 4. Execution Stack and Return Addresses, 5. Butters and Stack Smashing; Unit 2: Shell Code and Loading Shell Code, 6. What is shell code?, 7. Writing Shell Code, smaller and smaller, 8. Shell Code Variants: Remote Shell Code, 9. Obfuscated Shell Code, 10. Egg Hunt Shell Code, 11. Using the environment, 12. Format String Attacks; Unite 3: Defenses and Subverting those Defenses, 13. Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), 14. Non-Executable Stack: Return to LIb C, 15. Global Offset Table, 16. Return Oriented Programming, 17. Stack Pivoting