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The Mandiant – Hunt Mission Workshop, also known as the Practical Threat Hunting course, is a comprehensive three-day training program designed to equip threat hunters and incident responders with the core concepts of developing and executing threat hunts.

Mandiant red teams have conducted hundreds of covert red team operations. This course draws on that knowledge to help learners improve their ability to prevent, detect, and respond to threats in an enterprise network. Learners will better understand advanced threat actor behavior that Mandiant experts have observed through incident response investigations. Learners will also see how Mandiant red teams refine advanced attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) for use by red teams in their attempts to emulate advanced threat actors. Learners will develop the ability to think like an attacker and creatively use these TTPs to accomplish response goals while avoiding detection. Mandiant red team leads conduct this fast-paced technical course with presentations and scenario-based labs based on frontline expertise and intelligence-based security research. Learners receive hands-on experience conducting covert cyber attack simulations that mimic real-world threat actors. They will learn how to bypass advanced network segmentation, multi-factor authentication and application whitelisting, abuse web applications, escalate privileges and steal data while circumventing detection methods.

The Corelan Bootcamp is a truly unique opportunity to learn both basic & advanced techniques from an experienced exploit developer, at a conference. During this (typically 3 ‘long’ day) course, students will be able to learn all ins and outs about writing reliable exploits for the Windows platform.  The trainer will share his “notes from the field” and various tips & tricks to become more effective at writing exploits. We believe it is important to start the course by explaining the basics of stack buffer overflows and exploit writing, but this is most certainly not “your average” entry level course. In fact, this is a true bootcamp and one of the finest and most advanced courses you will find on Win32 stack based exploit development. This hardcore hands-on course will provide students with solid understanding of current x86 (stack based) exploitation techniques and memory protection bypass techniques.  We make sure the course material is kept updated with current techniques, includes previously undocumented tricks and techniques, and details about research we performed ourselves.  Combined with the way the course is built up, this will turn this class into a truly unique experience.

The workshop is designed to introduce participants to the arcana of the best methods and tools for automatic detection of vulnerabilities and bug analysis in software in a practical way. In the beginning, we will focus on understanding techniques: binary analysis, searching for various types of vulnerabilities and debugging. We “bite” into practical fuzzing and mistakes that keep programmers awake at night using their non-deterministic occurrence. Participants will learn techniques for analyzing application weaknesses, writing grammars, and obtaining test corpora guaranteeing exciting results. After understanding the aspects of bughunting, the time will come to automate vulnerability analysis and debugging methods to ensure that defective code elements are quickly found. The training focuses on x86 / x64 architecture, and attacking projects processing data in various formats (text, binary), network fuzzing on Windows and Linux platforms.

The Advanced Software Exploitation (ASE) course offers security professionals an opportunity to test and develop their skills like never before. During this course, students will learn to identify common vulnerabilities and then use them to develop exploits for a wide range of software applications, including popular Windows applications, interpreted languages, and Web browsers. In the first half of the course, attendees will use fuzzing, reverse engineering, and source code auditing, to attack a wide variety of applications (e.g. iTunes, Firefox, Vulnserver, etc.) and then use proven exploitation techniques to develop an exploit for one of the VMs (Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10). Then, in the second half of the course, the focus will shift from classic vulnerabilities to more advanced ones. In this section, students will learn how to escape Java sandbox using a type confusion vulnerability, how to circumvent the ASLR without pointer leaks, and how to use precise heap spraying, just to name a few. By the end of this course, students will know how to find software vulnerabilities using fuzzing, reverse engineering, and source code auditing, and then how to write their own exploits in Python, JavaScript, or Java.

This intensive three-day course is designed to teach the fundamental investigative techniques needed to respond to today’s cyber threats. The fast-paced course is built upon a series of hands-on labs that highlight the phases of a targeted attack, sources of evidence and principles of analysis. Examples of skills taught include how to conduct rapid triage on a system to determine whether it is compromised, uncover evidence of initial attack vectors, recognize persistence mechanisms and investigate an incident throughout an enterprise. Although the course is focused on analyzing Windows-based systems and servers, the techniques and investigative processes are applicable to all systems and applications. The course includes detailed discussions of common forms of endpoint, network and file-based forensic evidence collection and their limitations as well as how attackers move around in a compromised Windows environment. The course also explores information management that enriches the investigative process and bolsters an enterprise security program. Discussion topics include the containment and remediation of a security incident, and the connection of short-term actions to longer-term strategies that improve organizational resiliency.

Sophisticated attackers frequently go undetected in a victim’s network for an extended period. Attackers can blend their traffic with legitimate traffic that only skilled network analysts know how to detect. This course shows learners how to identify malicious network activity. The course provides an overview of network protocols, network architecture, intrusion detection systems, network traffic capture and traffic analysis. Learners review the types of network monitoring and the tools commonly used to analyze captured network traffic. The course also explores the best techniques for investigating botnets and how to use honeypots in network monitoring. The course includes lectures and hands-on lab sessions to reinforce technical concepts.

Learn everything about the latest methods of phishing, using reverse proxying to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication. Learn to think like an attacker, during your red team engagements, and become the master of phishing with Evilginx.

The training is divided in five sections: Initial foothold, Gaining access, Offensive Coding, internal reconnaissance and lateral movement. The training will cover each section in depth by providing technical evidence of how each technique works. Red team exercises are performed to assess responsiveness and detection capability. As a red teamer, it is important to understand what each tool and commands we use is doing behind the curtain to be able to provide proper guidance. The training will help you understand the tool and technique being used during a red team, develop your own toolset, adapt existing tools when needed, provide guidance on where to look for new techniques or potential evasion tricks and finally an overview of the popular technique used to perform red team exercise. Expect to perform code review, network analysis, code behavior analysis and write code to improve your red team capabilities.

The Mr.Un1k0d3r – Offensive Coding is a comprehensive program designed for those interested in the field of cybersecurity, particularly in offensive security and penetration testing. The course is led by Mr.Un1k0d3r, who is known for developing Red Team tools. One of the key aspects of this course is its focus on AV/EDR Evasion: Packer Style. This involves learning about various techniques to evade antivirus and endpoint detection and response systems, which are crucial skills for any offensive security professional. The course also includes a detailed walkthrough of the Prelude Operator 1.5 platform. This platform is used extensively in the course to demonstrate and practice various offensive coding techniques.

This course covers key aspects of cybersecurity, including understanding threats, vulnerabilities, and the necessary countermeasures. It may also delve into specialized areas such as zero-day vulnerability research.

At Pwn2Own Vancouver 2021 I have demonstrated an 0day VM escape exploit for Parallels Desktop hypervisor. The exploit chain that I developed was based on logic issues. In this deep technical presentation I will share the technical details of the exploit, as well as various preliminary and contextual knowledge related to it. Logic security vulnerabilities (i.e. those that can be exploited without any memory corruptions) are becoming increasingly important in offensive security research right now, as Rust and other memory-safe programming languages are rapidly taking over popular code bases. When evaluating the attack surface of Parallels Desktop, as an expert in both hypervisors and memory corruption bugs, I saw many opportunities for classical buffer overflows, but chose to try and find a logic bug instead. As hypervisors are ultra-complex low level software, exploitable logic bugs in them are extremely rare. I was lucky to find such a “one of a kind” bug. Despite the bug was quite simple, the exploit turned out to be not so easy. Exploitation of the bug required me to develop a kernel module for the guest OS from which I was escaping, reverse-engineer some internal RPC protocol of the hypervisor, and emulate it in the exploit code. Eventually the exploit was reliable 100% by design, and executed arbitrary code on the host Mac. During the Pwn2Own competitions it came as a surprize that my exploit did not meet any collisions with other competition entries. Because the bug itself was quite easy, I expected that at least one participant would find and utilize it independently in their own Pwn2Own exploit. But it didn’t happen. That made me aware of the fact that a bug that looks easy does not necessarily imply an easy discovery or an easy exploitation process, an estimation which is very important for strategic aspects of offensive security research.