Blog Posts

Manually unpacking a binary that was packed with UPX, using two different methods including finding a tailjump and the pushad instruction.

After completing the PMAT course, something set into motion. My new found passion for Malware Analysis. This will be the second time I...

Over the past couple of months I have dived deep into malware analysis and reverse engineering. Completing the PMAT course and enrolling...

Quarantine (.BUP) files, otherwise known as BackUp files, are created by various applications such as McAfee antivirus. McAfee will...

In this write up, we will be playing the role of an incident responder, post compromise of a system. The task is to identify what the...

Hydra is a very powerful and fast password cracking tool which can also perform dictionary attacks against a wide range of protocols such...

Log4j is a popular Java library maintained by the Apache foundation used as a logging framework for Java. Around Friday 10th December...

90% of the Global Fortune 1000 companies use Active Directory as their primary method of authentication and authorization. This plays a...

In this blog we will be walking though a machine from the Cybermentors course; Practical Ethical Hacking (PEH). The main lesson from this...

Once we have compromised a Domain Controller we want to gain a level of persistence on the domain. We can do this by crafting Golden-Tickets

This will be my first of many Active Directory themed blogs focused around exploitation. I have recently been exposed to a lot of Active...

In this blog post, we will be analysing a very recent Phishing Kit that was found to be active last month. We will be taking a look at...

This is my first blog post walking through a machine from the Cybermentors course Practical Ethical Hacking (PEH). This is one of the...

This blog post is my first post on the topic of Phishing where I try to analyse an SMS Phishing text, not in great technical detail but...

In this blog post, we will creating a malicious macro that allows us to catch a reverse shell when a word document is opened. We will...

Buffer Overflow This blog post is my attempt in trying to explain how to perform a buffer overflow in preparation for the OSCP. I have...

The Information Security industry is booming and there hasn't been a better time to enter! Although prior cyber security experience isn't...