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Re: Some help With BOF Exploits Writing.
From: DownBload <downbload () hotmail com>
Date: 26 Jul 2003 12:39:18 -0000
In-Reply-To: <Law9-F5967EKRuYDlrj00009721 () hotmail com> Remote bof exploitation is little bit harder, because you can't just do "movl %esp, %eax" for finding return address. In classic buffer overflows, for remote exploits, try to install vuln. application on your host and find return address. Then you can code exploit which will probably work on same architecture, OS and application version as yours. For remote (local also) exploits, you can use return address brute force method. Remote format string exploits are much more hackers-friendly than classic buffer overflows in return address finding. You can just pop stack with %x% x%x%x%x. DownBload / Illegal Instruction Labs <www.kamikaza.org>
The return address should be before your shellcode, inside the nop's. [NNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSSSSRET] buffer stored on stack. 5 1 2 3 4 0xFFFFA 0xFFFFD 0xFFFFE grows upwards. 1. Bunch of nop instructions: 0x90, that do nothing, so execution goes to the right until your code is executed. 2. shellcode. 3. return address, which is calculated to point somewhere within the nop operations, this is calculated locally, by using the stack pointer esp. see 4. 4. Esp stack pointer points to the top of stack, which is usually here, unless there is other data on the stack, to calculate the address of the NOP's, you'd get the esp address and subtract an offset from it depending on the size of the data within the stack. 5. Ebp, the current location inside the stack, so if anything gets
pushed,
it'll get pushed here and ebp will continue to shift to the left as more things are added to the stack. most unix code does this like this: ----------------------------- get_esp() { __asm__("movl %esp, %eax"); puts the esp (current stack top) into eax.
Eax
is the return value } of most function calls in C. //calculate ret, using offset supplied by user. offset = atoi(argv[1]); will crash if there was no input however. Should check first. RET = get_esp() - offset; ---------------------------------- [NNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSRET] 10 20 30 40 50 60 simple decimal example. /exploit 20 RET = Getesp() - offset RET = 60 - 20 RET = 40 crash .. middle of shellcode /exploit 40 RET = getesp() - offset RET = 60 - 40 RET = 20 Bingo, right in the nops, execution moves to the right until shellcode hits.. thats the basic way of doing it anyway. Another method is by putting the shellcode, and alot more nops inside an environment variable, to increase the size of the padding(NOPs) to increase chances of success and have less guesswork. Anyone want to add to this? And a question of my own, how does remote exploits accomplish this??
Thats
been on my mind for quite some time. deepcodeFrom: "theetabond" <theetabond () rediffmail com> Reply-To: "theetabond" <theetabond () rediffmail com> To: pondermate () hotmail com Subject: Some help With BOF Exploits Writing. Date: 25 Jul 2003 06:56:15 -0000 Hi there DeepCode, I've been reading u'r recent posts on Vul-Dev, and
they
were very informative and useful for me. I had some questions in my mind regarding writing buffer overflows on Win32 platform, and i hope may be
you
cud help me with that. I had written some exploits ( stack overflow ) for win98 successfully.
But
now i want to do the same thing at win2k/winxp platforms. My problem in this is - in calculating the return address which u write over the
previous
RET instruction. On win98 i had a util called getcode.exe , which will
scan
the memory and list out the jmp eax, ret eax, call eax, call ebx and similar useful addresses which u can use to write at return addresses. Unfortunately this particular tool deosn't work on win2k/Xp. So how can
i
calculate the return address on 2k/Xp platform?? Dissembling the
DLLs/EXEs
and searching them all for such instances is kinda hard to do. So is there any way/tool which can give me the desired output ?? Thank You Very Much theeta._________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
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