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Binary Exploitation
CTF Challenges

Exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities to take control of programs. Master buffer overflows, format strings, heap exploitation, and modern mitigation bypasses.

Intermediate to Expert
6 recommended tools
10 skill areas

Core Skills & Techniques

Binary exploitation (pwn) challenges push you to exploit low-level vulnerabilities in compiled programs. You'll learn how attackers gain code execution through memory corruption, and understand why mitigations like ASLR, DEP, and stack canaries exist.

01
Stack Buffer Overflows
ret2win, ret2libc, ROP Chains
02
Format String Vulnerabilities
03
Heap Exploitation
Use-After-Free, Double Free, House of Force
04
Return-Oriented Programming (ROP)
05
Shellcode Writing & Encoding
06
Bypassing ASLR, NX/DEP, Stack Canaries, PIE
07
Kernel Exploitation Fundamentals
08
Integer Overflows & Type Confusion
09
Race Conditions
10
Sigreturn-Oriented Programming (SROP)

Essential Toolkit

These are the industry-standard tools used by professionals and CTF competitors for binary exploitation challenges.

pwntools
GDB + pwndbg/GEF
ROPgadget
one_gadget
checksec
Ghidra

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