Shellcode is a small piece of machine code used as the payload in exploit development. In this post, we write Linux shellcode from scratch — starting with a simple exit, building up to spawning a shell, and explaining every decision along the way.

In a previous tutorial we discusses how we can exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability on a Linux machine. I wen through all theories in depth and explained each step. Now today we are going to jump...

Have you ever wondered how attackers gain control over remote servers? How do they just run some exploit and compromise a computer? If we dive into the actual context, there is no magic happening....