Exploit Development Part I

Exploit Development is one of the most challenging and rewarding skills in Cybersecurity. Learn how to bypass protections, craft exploits, and master low-level attacks. This is Part I.

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Exploit Development

Part I

This intensive 3-day course provides cybersecurity professionals with the foundational and practical skills required to master exploit development on Linux systems. Through guided labs and structured exercises, participants will learn how low-level memory vulnerabilities can be transformed into working exploits, gaining control over binary execution flow.

The training begins with core concepts such as stack frames, heap behavior, and CPU registers, before progressing into practical exploitation of buffer overflows. By examining real-world vulnerabilities alongside controlled lab binaries, students will understand how mitigations like ASLR, NX, stack canaries, and PIE are bypassed in practice.

Participants will gain hands-on experience using professional-grade tooling, including GDB, and GEF while dissecting ELF binaries with utilities such as objdump and readelf. Special emphasis is placed on analyzing memory layouts, crafting shellcode, and leveraging compilation flags to recreate vulnerable scenarios.

By the end of the course, students will be able to confidently analyze crashes, trace execution flow at the assembly level, and write proof-of-concept exploits. The course bridges theory with practice, equipping red teamers, vulnerability researchers, and defenders with a deep understanding of binary exploitation that remains highly relevant in today’s offensive and defensive operations.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction to Exploit Development
2. Outline of Exploit Development Training
3. Slides
4. Exploit Development and Exploits
5. Real World Exploit Development
6. Vulnerability and Exploitation
7. Memory Management, Instructions and Data
8. Tools for Debugging
9. Introduction to GDB Part I
10. Introduction to GDB Part II
11. Binary Compilation Process, System and Dynamic Memory layout
12. Hands on Binary Compilation Process
13. Binary Analysis
14. Exploring The Stack
15. Stack vs Heap
16. Assembly Language and Instructions
17. MOV Instructions in Assembly
18. Endianness and Registers
19. Size of Registers and Flags
20. EIP, LEA, NOP, and other Instructions
21. Function Calls, Conditionals and C Main
22. Stack Overflow
23. Buffer Overflow Practice Part I
24. Buffer Overflow Practice Part II
25. Shellcode explanation
26. Stack Buffer Overflow
27. In depth explanation
28. Return to the environment Technique
29. JMP EAX Technique
30. JMP ESP Technique
31. DEP Bypass Technique
32. ASLR Bypass Technique