Hacking

Unixfreaxjp at #R2CON2020 presented shellcode basics for radare2

Shellcode play an essential role in cyber attacks, the popular expert Unixfreaxjp explained how to utilize radare2 for variation of shellcode analysis

Shellcode is having an important part in cyber intrusion activities and mostly spotted to be executed during the process/thread injection or during the exploitation of memory space that mostly related to a vulnerability. Either way, the purpose of shellcode is to utilize a small executable size so it can run and can trigger further steps of actions in a specifically targeted environment.

Depends on the nature of the shell code itself it can be made for a good purpose or bad one. The analysis of a shellcode requires know-how of which system library and functions will be invoked to help its execution, and depends on the operating system it can be a wide variation of commands from direct calls to an OS functions calls to the hash of the API of certain OS libraries. A good analysis tool can help you dissect a shellcode if the low-level language analysis operation is supported, as any shellcode is coded in assembly language. radare2 is one example of those tools.

In this presentation, I explain how to utilize radare2 for variation of shellcode analysis and will lead you as a tutorial from a basic know-how in analyzing shell code with multiple demonstrations.

I also state the definition of the shellcode to avoid misleading and adding up some samples on interesting cases that can help you to see how they can be utilized for any kind of (bad) purpose that is explaining the importance for all of us in learning how to analyze them. I was having only 30 minutes to present this rich content so I condensed the material in the video of the presentation so please read the slides and pause the video while you are watching, I hope you can learn something from this presentation.

Below the Q&A video published by Unixfreaxjp:

https://youtu.be/A9wodVpSFds

About the author: Unixfreaxjp

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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