About The Project

snow-crash is a 42 project and an introduction to IT security. A system image is given, and the goal is to escalate privileges, with various techniques. All steps are documented in markdown files in levels folder, feel free to read them.

Environment

I did all of this using Kali as host, and VirtualBox as virtualization software to run the ISO. I configured the network as a bridged adapter.

Some of the techniques used

• Decompilation / Reverse engineering -> Exploitation
• Input checking bypass
• Code injection
• File impersonating
• Library injection
• Environnement variables / $PATH trickery
• Reversing deprecated cryptography algorithms

Full subject is available here and system image file (.iso) here

Using

• retdec

Contact

kema-dev - GitHub