I love short and impactful proverbs and in that, Latin proverbs hold a very special place. One of my favourites being: Fortis fortuna adiuvat – Fortune favors the brave The book, Make your Own Luck is based on the same principle. We have all witnessed living legends who are neither born into families with ancestral…
Peter Thiel – widely known as founding CEO of PayPal and also as the don of the “PayPal Mafia” has written some really effective and pragmatic pointers on startups and about the things the future beholds for them. Here are the five pointers that I took aways from this book: Pragmatic SellingAs a rule of…
If you have ever written code in a text editor, you must have surely come across the legendary editor – Sublime Text at some point in your life. The native support for myriads of languages, customisable interface, hot plugins, neat interface, soothing colour scheme! You name it, Sublime has it all. Disclaimer This blog post…
This will be a multi part series where I will be publishing my notes taken while diving into the mysterious world of WinAPI programming. When it comes to WinAPI, there’s no better reference than MSDN itself! And also, there’s no escape to it. To fully comprehend the mystery, we will have to refer to it…
In this challenge, we are presented with an executable file unlike the first challenge where we also had access to the source code. Just like any other programming / reversing challenge, this one could have been possibly solved by two ways (I could think of two, there may be more). Following is my write-up for…
This is my first entry for the Flare-On challenge. For those who don’t know, Flare-On is a yearly binary based challenge series which is heavily focused on reverse engineering. It usually comprises of ~15 challenges with increasing difficulty level. This year, the event had 11 challenges. Due to the nicheness and the difficulty level of…
As opposed to Go-Getters, people with a Go-Giver mindset think about giving others over getting everything for themselves. Go-Givers are the ones who always come to service to others and constantly keep on adding value in the lives of people around them. This little gem of a book talks of very strong five laws by…
Wise and Otherwise is a beautiful compilation of bittersweet anecdotes from the author’s own life. This compilation of short stories is authored by Sudha Murty who is a teacher, author and a social worker by profession. Chairperson of Infosys Foundation and Padma Shri, Sudha Murty has made significant contributions in the development of rural parts…
Crypters are programs which take the payload as input and encrypt it with a strong cryptographic algorithm in order to avoid detection and make analysis a bit difficult. When delivering the encrypted payload to the target host, the payload is run through a decryption stub which decrypts the payload and executes the decrypted shellcode in…
Polymorphism in the context of Shellcoding can be defined as altering the appearance of the code keeping the core functionality intact. Polymorphic shellcodes are created to beat signature based detection mechanisms which is how Antiviruses attempt to detect malicious files on systems. In this blogpost, we will take three Linux/x86 shellcodes from shell-storm and make…