Pentester Academy Courses

Windows System Programming: Fundamentals course will take you through the basics of getting started with system programming on Windows.

This course will familiarize students with all aspects of writing Assembly code on the ARM platforms. By the end of this course students will be able to understand and write Assembly programs on the ARM platform. This includes being able to understand programs that were created by a high level language compiler. This course is fundamental for  anyone wishing to do reverse engineering on the ARM platforms. The BeagleBone family of boards is used in this course.

Reconnaissance the first and probably most important step of pentesting and red-blue teaming exercises. A well done recon can help prioritize which systems to go behind first and to dedicate more time and resources. In recent times, there has been a lot of technological progress in fields in web development, cloud tech, machine learning etc. which has led to a fundamental change in how networks are created and run. There has also been an introduction of a ton of new network and application components because of this. The focus of this course to help attendees understand these new technologies and components better.

WinDbg is the most popular Debugger for Windows. In this course, we will look at how WinDbg can be used for both User and Kernel mode debugging. We will learn how processes and threads work on Windows, and how we can examine memory, modify registers & data, disassemble code etc. among other things. We will also learn a bit of Windows internals, kernel data strucutres and how to analyze rootkits and other malicious code in the form of device drivers.

PCAP2XML is a tool suite which takes 802.11 PCAP trace files as input and can convert them into XML or SQLITE representations. This allows a pentester to run arbitrary queries on the packet header fields.