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Corelan Professional Exploit Development Training

“Corelan is back ‘down under’”, offering their world-renowned Bootcamp and Advanced classes at very competitive pricing.

After teaching both classes in 2014 and 2015, Peter is coming back to Sydney in November 2019, running his signature classes back-to-back again.

Super-charge your Windows exploit development skills and sign up for one (or both) of these classes.

Corelan classes tend to sell very fast, get your seat now!

Dates & Location

Bootamp: November 20-22, 2019

Advanced: November 25-27, 2019

Location: PwC Australia, One International Towers, Watermans Quay, Barangaroo, 2000 NSW

Cost

Bootcamp: Early Bird Price AUD $2700+GST // Regular Price AUD $3000+GST

Advanced: Early Bird Price AUD $3000+GST // Regular Price AUD $3300+GST

Combo (both Bootcamp & Advanced): Early Bird Price AUD $5500+GST // Regular Price AUD $5800+GST

Additional Details

• Course cost will include morning tea, sandwiches, fruit and drinks, and afternoon tea.
• Tea & coffee will be provided.
• Courses can run quite late into the evening as there's a lot of material to cover.
• If you have any issues registering for the event please contact OJ Reeves at oj@beyondbinary.io

Corelan BOOTCAMP (November 20-22)

The Corelan “BOOTCAMP” is a truly unique opportunity to learn both basic & advanced techniques from an experienced exploit developer, at a conference. During this (typically 3 ‘long’ day) course, students will be able to learn all ins and outs about writing reliable exploits for the Win32 platform.  The trainer will share his “notes from the field” and various tips & tricks to become more effective at writing exploits.

We believe it is important to start the course by explaining the basics of stack buffer overflows and exploit writing, but this is most certainly not “your average” entry level course. In fact, this is a true bootcamp and one of the finest and most advanced courses you will find on Win32 stack based exploit development.

This hardcore hands-on course will provide students with solid understanding of current Win32 (stack based) exploitation techniques and memory protection bypass techniques.  We make sure the course material is kept updated with current techniques, includes previously undocumented tricks and techniques, and details about research we performed ourselves.  Combined with the way the course is built up, this will turn this class into a truly unique experience.

During all of our courses, we don’t just focus on techniques and mechanics, but we also want to make sure you understand why a given technique is used, why something works and why something doesn’t work.

We believe those are just a few arguments that makes this training stand out between other exploit development training offerings.   We encourage you to check our testimonials page if you want to see real, voluntary, unmodified and uncensored reactions by some of our students.

Finally, we offer you post-training support as well.   If you have taken the course and you still have questions afterwards, we will help.

WARNING: We do not provide solutions for any of the exercises in this course, but we will help you to find the solutions yourself, either during the course of after the course (via the student-only forum).

Why take this course?

• Are you interested in the process of turning an advisory into a working exploit ?
• Do you want to figure out if a given security patch/hotfix should be applied immediately or not ?
• Do you want to learn how to read and understand existing exploits ?
• Have you ever found yourself in a position where you have to change an existing exploit but failed to make it work.
• Do you want to write reliable exploits and integrate them into Metasploit ?
• Do you want to know what shellcode is, how Metasploit shellcode works and how to make shellcode work reliably in your exploit ?
• Do you have some basic knowledge about win32 exploit development already, and do you want to a good refresher and learn more advanced topcis ?  
• Have you read the Corelan exploit development tutorials, but still want to take the classes to fully understand and master the concepts ?
• Do you have other reasons to learn how to write exploits for the Win32 platform ?
• Are you willing to suffer and bleed a bit, learn fast and not intimidated by debuggers and assembly instructions ...
• ... then this course is exactly what you need !

Target Audience

Pentesters, auditors, network/system administrators, reverse engineers, malware analysts, developers, members of a security department, security enthusiasts, or anyone interested in exploit development.

Course Contents

• The x86 environment
• System Architecture
• Windows Memory Management
• Registers
• Introduction to Assembly
• The stack
• The exploit development lab environment
• Setting up the exploit developer lab
• Using debuggers and debugger plugins to gather primitives
• Stack Buffer Overflows
• Stack Buffers
• Functions
• Saved return pointer overwrites
• Stack cookies
• Structured Exception Handlers
• etc
• Egg hunters
• Using egghunters
• Egg hunters in a WoW64 environment
• Reliability++ & Reusability++
• Finding and avoiding bad characters
• Creative ways to deal with character set limitations
• Metasploit framework Exploit Modules
• Writing exploits for the Metasploit Framework
• Porting exploits to the Metasploit Framework
• ASLR
• Bypassing ASLR
• DEP
• Bypassing NX/DEP
• Return Oriented Programming / Code Reuse (ROP) 

During the course, students will get the opportunity to work on real vulnerabilities in real applications and use exploitation techniques that work on current Operating Systems.

Make no mistake.  Although this course will explain the basics of exploit development, students will need to be able to transition to more complex theory and exercises quickly. The course has a steep learning curve and will require your full attention and focus.

Knowledge & Attitude Prerequisites

Students should:

• be able to read simple C code and simple scripts
• be familiar with writing basic scripts using python/ruby/…
• be ready to dive into a debugger and read asm for hours and hours and hours
• be ready to think out of the box and have a strong desire to learn
• be fluent with managing Windows / Linux operating system and with using vmware workstation/virtualbox
• be familiar with using Metasploit

No prior knowledge of assembly is required, but it will certainly help if you have some basic knowledge.

(In case you’re wondering: if you took OSCP/OSCE, and understood the exploitation part of the courses, then you are probably ready for the course).

Technical Prequisites

Unless specified otherwise, students are required to bring the following :

• A laptop (no netbook) with vmware workstation/virtualbox and enough processing power and RAM (we recommend 4Gb of RAM) to run up to 2 virtual machines at the same time.  The use of a 64bit processor and a 64bit operating system on the laptop will make the exercises more realistic.
• 2 Virtual machines installed (Windows 7 SP1 (no pathes), Kali Linux (fully up-to-date))

Note : you will receive the exact installation instructions after registration, about a week before class begins, so don’t start installling the VMs yet.

All required tools and applications will be provided during the training or will be downloaded from the internet during the training. 

You must have full administrator access to all machines. You must be able to install and remove software, and you must be able to disable and/or remove firewall/antivirus/… when necessary.

Legal Prerequisites

It will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement at the start of the course.  You will not be admitted to the course without signing this document.  You can find a copy of the document here.

Corelan ADVANCED (November 25-27)

The Corelan “ADVANCED” exploit development class is a fast-paced, mind-bending, hands-on course where you will learn advanced exploit development techniques from an experienced exploit developer. During this (typically 3 ‘long’ day) course, students will get the opportunity to learn how to write exploits that bypass modern memory protections for the Win32 platform, using Windows 7 as the example platform, but using techniques that can be applied to other operating systems. Additionally, we will discuss the differences with Windows 10 and how to approach and implement the same exploitation primitives in Windows 10.  The trainer will share his “notes from the field” and various tips & tricks to become more effective at writing exploits.

This is most certainly not an entry level course. In fact, this is a one of the finest and most advanced courses you will find on Win32 exploit development.    

This hardcore, practical, hands-on course will provide students with solid understanding of x86 Windows heap exploitation.  We make sure the course material is kept updated with current evolutions, includes previously undocumented tricks and techniques, and details about research we performed ourselves, so you can apply the research techniques on other applications and operating system versions.  Combined with the way the course is built up, this will turn this class into a truly unique learning experience.

During all of our courses, we don’t just focus on techniques and mechanics, but we also want to make sure you understand why a given technique is used, why something works and why something doesn’t work.  In the advanced course, we also provide you with insights on how to do your own research related with heap exploitation in general (not just Windows 7)

We believe those are just a few arguments that makes this training stand out between other exploit development training offerings.   Feel free to check our testimonials page if you want to see real, voluntary, unmodified and uncensored reactions by some of our students.

Finally, we offer you post-training support as well.   If you have taken the course and you still have questions afterwards, we will help.

WARNING: We do not provide solutions for any of the exercises in this course, but we will help you to find the solutions yourself, either during the course of after the course (via the student-only forum).

Why take this course?

• Are you familiar with the basics of exploit development ?  Do you know how to write exploits for saved return pointer overwrites and abuse SEH records with your eyes closed ?  Are you interested inunderstanding how heap spraying works, and why it works ?  Is heap exploitation still a black box for you? Are you now ready for the next step ?   
• Have you taken the Bootcamp or other commercial courses on exploit development and want to move to the next phase ?
• Do you want to learn modern techniques to exploit applications on Windows 7 ?
• Do you want to learn the fine art of writing browser exploits ?
• Do you want to learn the skills to investigate heap managers on modern Windows versions (Win10) and find your own exploitation primitives?
• Would you like to know what (generic) questions to ask (rather than being spoonfed exploit-specific solutions & answers)
• Are you able to write ROP chains blindfolded ?  (It is fundamentally important that you have practical experience with constructing/writing your own ROP chain!)
• Are you willing to suffer and bleed, absorb new knowledge fast and not intimidated by debuggers and assembly instructions ...
• ... then this course is exactly what you need !

Target Audience

Pentesters, auditors, network/system administrators, reverse engineers, malware analysts, developers, members of a security department, security enthusiasts, or anyone that has a solid and practical basic knowledge of exploit development for Windows already.

Course Contents

• ASLR & DEP Refresher
• Bypassing ASLR
• Bypassing DEP
• Heap Spraying
• Heap Feng Shui & heaplib
• Precise Heap Spraying
• Heap Exploitation (Internet Explorer as an example)
• DOM Fundamentals
• Heap Fundamentals
• Heap Exploitation
• Use After Free
• Linear & non-linear corruptions
• Type confusion
• Memory leaks / Information Disclosure
• Heap Manipulations and heap primitives
• Modern userland memory protection mechanisms 
• Overview of memory protection evolutions
• Windows 10 heap manager
• Finding your own bugs 
• Thoughts & experiences on fuzzing

During the course, students will get the opportunity to work on real vulnerabilities in real applications, use a wide range of heap exploitation techniques  and most importantly learn how to do your own research to find exploitation primitives in complex applications and new versions of Windows.

Warning – The course has a steep learning curve and will require full attention and focus.

Knowledge & Attitude Prerequisites

Students must:

• be able to read simple C code and simple scripts
• truly master all basic concepts of exploit development, as listed in our “BOOTCAMP” course.  If you have taken the Bootcamp course and done a lot of practice after taking the class, then you’re probably ready for this class. 
• be familiar with ROP (i.e. understand how it works on Windows, know how to build a ROP chain, know how to use mona.py to generate a chain and how to fix the chain if it doesn’t work)
• be familiar with reading/writing python/ruby/html/javascript scripts
• be familiar with using debuggers (we’ll use WinDBG for most part of the course, but we’ll spend some time explaining the basics of using WinDBG.  It is assumed that you have practical experience with Immunity Debugger and mona.py)
• be ready to dive into a debugger and read asm for hours and hours and hours
• be ready to think out of the box and have a strong desire to learn
• be fluent with managing Windows / Linux operating system and with using vmware workstation/virtualbox
• be familiar with using Metasploit to generate shellcode
• have basic practical knowledge of assembly

It’s imperative for students to comply with these prerequisites.

Technical Prequisites

Unless specified otherwise, students are required to bring the following :

• A laptop (no netbook) with vmware workstation/virtualbox and enough processing power and RAM (we recommend 4Gb of RAM) to run up to 2 virtual machines at the same time.  The use of a 64bit processor and a 64bit operating system on the laptop will make the exercises more realistic.
• 2 Virtual machines installed (Windows 7 SP1 (no pathes), Kali Linux (fully up-to-date))

Note : you will receive the exact installation instructions after registration, about a week before class begins, so don’t start installling the VMs yet.

All required tools and applications will be provided during the training or will be downloaded from the internet during the training. 

You must have full administrator access to all machines. You must be able to install and remove software, and you must be able to disable and/or remove firewall/antivirus/… when necessary.

Legal Prerequisites

It will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement at the start of the course.  You will not be admitted to the course without signing this document.  You can find a copy of the document here.