Exploit Development Tutorial for Hackers and Pentesters

Name: Exploit Development Tutorial for Hackers and Pentesters
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Learn indepth exploit development techniques in linux and windows binary files and become a zero-day exploit developer

Created bySwapnil Singh

Last updated 6/2026

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What you'll learn

You will learn Exploit Development basic building blocks for Linux and Windows so that you can understand most of the topics very easily in exploit development
This course will start your journey from very basics and go to indepths of Exploit Development processes in Linux and Windows platform exploit developments.
Exploit Development skills in Linux and Windows plays a very important role in Hacking Career, If you know Exploit Development skills then its a plus point.
Concept of exploiting software systems are very crucial to understand and this course will teach you all the important concepts of exploit development processes

Course content

6 sections • 60 lectures • 17h 29m total length

Thanks for joining0:53
What skills are needed for this course ?0:50
Lab machine configurations1:10

Before any Exploitations1:15
Installing gdb plugins for exploit development lab8:33
GDB basics for exploit development22:58
Binary compilation process12:36
Static memory layout of Binary file18:06
Dynamic Memory layout inside the process5:35
what is the purpose of stack in memory ?3:15
Memory segmentation of binary and stack9:32
Concept of stack inside the binary5:55
Full examination of stack area in binary19:39
Full analysis of stacks in multi level functions of binary21:47
Basic ELF static analysis16:02
ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) is the standard binary format used by Linux and many Unix-like systems for executables, shared libraries, and object files.
An ELF file is divided into structured components:
ELF Header: The entry point of the file. It defines the file type (executable, shared, object), architecture (x86, x64), and offsets to other important tables.
Program Headers (Segments): Describe how the binary should be loaded into memory at runtime. The loader uses these to map code, data, and other regions.
Section Headers (Sections): Used mainly for linking and analysis. Examples include .text (code), .data (initialized data), and .bss (uninitialized data).
Entry Point: The address where execution begins.
This separation allows ELF to support efficient loading, dynamic linking, and modular binary design.
Practical concepts of a linker17:58
What does a loader acutally do ?3:25
What are the symbols inside the binary ?14:17
Purpose of plt and got sections in binary12:19
Practical identification of plt and got sections inside gdb9:57
Dangers of SUID files38:28

Mystery of return address in main function12:05
What exactly is a Buffer Overflow Attack ?13:44
Lab Configurations0:52
Follow below steps to configure your Lab Machine:
Download the LabMachine.ova file and import it in your Virtual Box
Download the ssh_Ubuntu.sh file in your system ( Linux ).
Give the execute permission:
Linux$: chmod +x ssh_Ubuntu.sh
Open the ssh_Ubuntu.sh in any text editor
Replace the <IP address> with your LabMachine ip address and save the file.
Now you can execute this ssh_Ubuntu.sh to login into your lab machine:
Linux$: ./ssh_Ubuntu.sh
Password is toor
How to configure lab machine4:43
What is ASLR and why it is used inside Operating System ?10:38
How to track down all the local variables inside running memory of binary36:20
Tracking down the function input arguments inside stack boundary14:33
In this section we will learn how to track down function input arguments inside the stack area.
Tracking down return address of any function inside stack memory22:21
Exploiting our first binary program in stack memory area32:59
Basic important roadmap of exploit development process25:06
Developing first exploit to get a system shell50:47
Environment variables and the stack25:08
Why do we use environment variable ?10:23
Developing Stack Buffer overflow exploit by using environment variable27:13
Exploiting a program with very less buffer area22:35
How to reduce address searching steps inside stack13:44
Exploiting the binary without using nops12:14
Finding the shell address in more reliable way9:20

What is DEP protection inside the binary ?5:50
Concept of bypassing DEP protection of the binary8:32
Bypassing DEP protection of Binary36:45
Download the lab virtual machine image file and Import the (.ova) lab machine image into virtual box, ( username: professor, Pass: toor ) to follow the all the practicals.
Bypassing ASLR protection of the Binary26:26
Understanding Stack Cookie protection mechanism11:58
Tracking down the canary value inside the protected binary20:19
Understanding the stack Cookie protection behaviour of binary inside gdb14:46
Bypassing stack cookie protection of the Binary42:38
What is RELRO exploit7:33
Bypassing RELRO protection of Binary56:24

What are Format specifiers ?24:46
What is Format String Vulnerability ?25:54
Reading Data from any arbitrary memory address16:02
Note: please disable the aslr before doing this practical:
sudo echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
Understanding Direct parameter access and field width for developing exploit10:22
Method of writing data to any arbitrary memory address38:22
Using short writes method to write bytes to any arbitrary memory address15:22
Overwriting exit function memory address in GOT entry with shellcode20:36
Exploiting printf function GOT entry to get system shell4:22

Requirements

Linux command line basics
Assembly Language basics
C programming
Eager to learn new things

Description

In this course of Exploit Development Tutorial for Beginners to Advanced Hacks you will learn the skills required to develop and create exploits from linux and windows programs. First this course of Exploit Development Tutorial for Beginners to Advanced Hacks will focus on the basics then it will dive into indepth concepts of vulnerabilites like buffer overflow, stack buffer overflow, format string buffer overflow, Data Execution Prevention, ASLR, ROP etc. You will learn how to use debuggers like IDA ,gdb, dbgx64, immunity debugger etc in order to develop your own exploit. You will learn how to create you exploits by performing fuzzing, shellcoding, building the payload then triggering the payload after the exploit runs. In this course of Exploit Development Tutorial for Beginners is for begginers as well as advanced hackers who wants to learn in depth skills of exploit development process. Exploit Development process is time consuming and needs basics to be cleared before like you should know how a binary works inside linux and windows. This course of Exploit Development will teach you how to master in developing the zero day exploits in modern binary applications. You will learn most advanced topics of ethical hacking in this course.

Who this course is for:

Ethical Hackers who want to learn the most important skills in hacking which is Exploit Development skills
Penetration testers who want to learn Exploit Development skills in Linux and Windows OS
Malware Analysts who wants to improve their skills in Exploit Development process in Linux and Windows OS
Programmers who want to know how software protections can be bypassed with Exploit Development process in Linux and Windows.
Developers who want to improve their secure programming skills by knowing exploit development process in Linux and Windows
Computer Science students who wanted to explore new concepts in software security by learning how to create exploits for vulnerable softwares

Exploit Development Tutorial for Hackers and Pentesters

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 3min

Binary Analysis Fundamentals for Exploit Development18 lectures • 4hr 2min

Stack Based Exploit Development18 lectures • 5hr 45min

Bypassing the Exploit Protections in Stack based Exploit Development10 lectures • 3hr 51min

Return Oriented Programming Exploitations3 lectures • 1hr 13min

Exploiting Format String Vulnerabilities8 lectures • 2hr 36min

Requirements

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