Exploit Development & Binary Security
Specialist certification in binary exploitation covering stack, heap, format strings, and sandbox escapes.
Stack Exploitation, ROP Chains and Mitigations
Advanced GOT Overwrite: 64-Bit Multi-Byte %hn/%hhn Writes with Null-Byte Bypass
Format String Arbitrary Write: Exploiting %n for GOT Overwrite and Code Redirection
Integer Truncation Exploitation: 64-to-32-Bit Narrowing, Size Check Bypass and Memory Corruption
Signed/Unsigned Confusion Exploitation: Negative Index Underflow and Memory Corruption via Sign Mismatch
Decrypting TLS Traffic via SSLKEYLOGFILE Integration and Encrypted Session Reconstruction
Format String Bugs and Write Primitives
Docker Volume Misconfiguration: Sensitive Host Path Exposure and Container-to-Host Escalation
Privileged Container Escape: Linux Capability Abuse and Host Device Access for Breakout
Kubernetes Dashboard Unauthenticated Access: Pod Creation, Secret Enumeration and Admin Escalation
Heap Exploitation, Sandbox Escapes and Binary Logic Bugs
Advanced Multi-Layer Encoding with Compression: gzip/zlib Layer Identification and Programmatic Decoding
Custom VM Obfuscation Reversal: Dispatcher Loop Analysis and Python Disassembler Construction
Password check
License key generation
Simple Buffer Overflow Without Protections: Return Address Overwrite and Program Flow Redirection
ret2libc on x86-64: GOT-Based libc Leak, ROP Gadget Setup and system("/bin/sh") Invocation
ROP Chain Construction: Gadget Chaining for execve Syscall with Stack Alignment and Bad-Byte Avoidance
Canary Brute-Force on Forking Servers: Byte-by-Byte Enumeration Exploiting fork() Memory Inheritance
Advanced seccomp Bypass: 32-Bit int 0x80 Syscall Table Exploitation Outside 64-Bit Filter Coverage
Kubernetes RBAC Privilege Escalation: ClusterRoleBinding Abuse and Service Account Token Misuse
Kubernetes Secret Enumeration in Cluster: Namespace Traversal and Sensitive Data Extraction
Kubernetes Service Account Abuse: Token-Based API Access and Lateral Movement Within Cluster
IAM policy misconfig
Analyzing Kerberoasting PCAP Captures via TGS-REQ Identification and Hashcat Ticket Extraction
Analyzing gRPC PCAP Captures via HTTP/2 Stream Identification and Protobuf Parameter Extraction
CTFFactory Binary Exploitation — Specialist
Specialist credential — awarded upon completion