🎯 What You'll Learn
- Fuzz and crash a vulnerable service
- Find offsets and bad characters
- Locate a reliable jump and stage shellcode
- Catch the resulting shell
Overview
This lab is your first step into Windows binary exploitation, covering the classic remote stack overflow workflow with a debugger in hand.
Core Topics
- Crash analysis
- Offset/bad-char discovery
- JMP ESP technique
- Payload delivery
Prerequisites
A working KaliRange lab environment and comfort with the Linux command line.
Recommended Workflow
- Spin up the target in your KaliRange lab environment and confirm connectivity.
- Enumerate the target thoroughly before touching any exploit — information first.
- Reproduce each technique by hand so you understand why it works, not just the command.
- Capture evidence (commands, output, screenshots) as you go.
- Write a short note on how a defender would detect or prevent what you just did.
Only ever run these techniques against systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. Practise inside your own KaliRange lab.
Your Goal
Work through every task in your own lab, document your findings as you would on a real engagement, then note the defensive takeaways.
Ready to practise. Work through the steps above at your own pace, then move on to a related lab.