🎓 Foundations of Linux Reverse Engineering and Exploitation

🧠 Course Overview
🔍 Linux Internals & Assembly
• Introduction to Linux internals
• Quick review of assembly (x86 & x64)
• Understanding calling conventions

🛠️ Reverse Engineering Tools
• GDB + pwndbg
• Ghidra
• Radare2
• Metasploit Framework
• PwnTools

💥 Exploitation Techniques
• Integer Overflow
• Buffer Overflow
• Format String Vulnerabilities
• Out-of-Bounds Memory Access

🛡️ Bypassing Security Mechanisms
• NX (No eXecute)
• ASLR
• Stack Canaries
• RELRO

🐚 Shellcoding Basics
• Writing and injecting shellcodes

📦 Binary Analysis
• Binary permissions & SetUID bit
• ELF structure
• GOT / PLT concepts

📚 Return-Oriented Programming (ROP)
• ret2win
• ret2libc
• ret2csu

🎯 Real-World Practice
• Hands-on CTFs:
▪️ PicoCTF
▪️ SnappCTF
▪️ Narnia (OverTheWire)
▪️ ROP Emporium

🚀 Final Lab
Walkthrough of a real CVE and writing an exploit for it from scratch.