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Since the beginning of my journey in computer security I have always been amazed and fascinated by true remote vulnerabilities. By true remotes, I mean bugs that are triggerable remotely without any user interaction. Not even a single click. As a result I am always on the lookout for …

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About a month ago, my mate b0n0n was working on the ledgerctf puzzles and challenged me to have a look at the ctf2 binary. I eventually did and this blogpost discusses the protection scheme and how I broke it. Before diving in though, here is a bit of background …

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About two weeks ago, my friend mongo challenged me to solve a reverse-engineering puzzle put up by the SSD team for OffensiveCon2018 (which is a security conference that took place in Berlin in February). The challenge binary is available for download here and here is one of the original …

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In the past weeks I enjoyed working on reversing a piece of software (don't ask me the name), to study how serial numbers are validated. The story the user has to follow is pretty common: download the trial, pay, get the serial number, use it in the annoying nag …

As last year, the French conference No Such Con returns for its second edition in Paris from the 19th of November until the 21th of November. And again, the brilliant Eloi Vanderbeken & his mates at Synacktiv put together a series of three security challenges especially for this occasion. Apparently, the …

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As the blog was a bit silent for quite some time, I figured it would be cool to put together a post ; so here it is folks, dig in!

The French company Quarkslab recently released a security challenge to win a free entrance to attend the upcoming HITBSecConf conference …

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The purpose of this little post is to create a piece of code able to monitor exceptions raised in a process (a bit like gynvael's ExcpHook but in userland), and to generate a report with information related to the exception. The other purpose is to have a look …

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Kryptonite was a proof-of-concept I built to obfuscate codes at the LLVM intermediate representation level. The idea was to use semantic-preserving transformations in order to not break the original program. One of the main idea was for example to build a home-made 32 bits adder to replace the add …