This box was without a second thought one of the favourite box of mine on HackTheBox so far, since I am more of a pwn and reverse engineering person, this machine was a challenge, an outstanding one which pushed my learning skills more further because upto the moment I really went into this, I was not a good at heap exploitation, more skeptical about the V8 exploitation skills of mine and of course I knew nothing of the kernel pwn, so this was a way to tackle every weakness of mine, hope you find the writeup useful, I’ll include the link of the attachments at the very bottom to my files, QEMU enviornment for the kernel pwn and the exploits, without further ado, let’s start.
This is a writeup of a retired Pwn challenge on HackTheBox, although I wanted to do it earlier but couldn’t get time for this writeup, so I will write it here.
I played this CTF mainly because I was chilling out and wanted to try out some challenges from the CTF. I managed to do the every pwn challenge except space one which was heap and the exploitation mechanism of it belongs to GLIBC 2.
This is an in-depth guide on ret2csu technique. I tried to make this article as much detailed as I could, including references and some binary to practice it with.