As part of the this course the first assignment is to create a working exploit against NetSetMan 4.7.1 using a buffer overflow vulnerability. If you wish to follow along, the installer can be found on Exploit-DB. Additionally I’m using a Windows XP SP3 (EN) VM making this a no-ASLR, 32-bit setup. Fuzzing Since the assignment doesn’t state where or how to trigger the overflow we have to fuzz it first, and as it doesn’t expose any network ports this reduces the attack surface to either importing profiles or freeform text input.

Recently I’ve finished the Practical Malware Analysis book and I’ve wanted to familiarise myself a bit more with the Win32 API. After spending a good amount of time on setting up Visual Studio C++ for MASM (Microsoft Macro Assembler) I wanted to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork due to the overload of visual clutter. Alas, running plain MASM on Windows 10 seems to be a no-go these days.