Courses Catalog

Burp Suite Pro is the leading tool for auditing Web applications at large, but also a complex beast where new features get added every few weeks. Mastering Burp Suite Pro, including its newest features, allows testers to get the most out of the tool, optimizing time spent auditing and testing. Work will be faster (hotkeys!) and much more efficient (more tools, more possibilities!). Attendees will also learn to measure and assess the quality of their attacks, a crucial skill in real-life engagements that can make the difference between a false-negative and a critical finding.

A complete introduction to 0-day discovery for Windows targets, focusing on closed-source real-world software, including kernel modules and user code. Who should take this course? Anyone looking to get into Windows vulnerability research and fuzzing, although many of the concepts and approaches taught can be used for fuzzing on other platforms (MacOS/Linux, etc), all the exercises will focus on Windows. Also useful for red-teamers looking to add zero-days to their arsenal (with a dedicated section on finding quick 0-days on time-limited engagements). Most topics are beginner friendly and assume limited or no prior experience with modern fuzzing approaches and Windows vulnerability research, with advanced topics (hypervisors & emulators, for example) presented in an easy-to-understand manner.

Full Stack Web Attack is not an entry-level course. It’s designed to push you beyond what you thought was possible and set you on the path to develop your own workflow for offensive zero-day web research. This course is developed for web penetration testers, bug hunters and developers that want to make a switch to server-side web security research or see how serious adversaries will attack their web based code. Students are expected to know how to use Burp Suite and have a basic understanding of common web attacks as well as perform basic scripting using common languages such as python, PHP and JavaScript. Each of the vulnerabilities presented have either been mirrored from real zero-day or are n-day bugs that have been discovered by the author with a focus on not just exploitation, but also on the discovery. So if you want to learn how to exploit web technologies without client interaction for maximum impact, that is, remote code execution then this is the course for you.

This is not your traditional SCADA/ICS/IIoT security course! How many courses send you home with a $500 kit including your own PLC and a set of hardware/RF hacking tools?!? This course teaches hands-on penetration testing techniques used to test individual components of a control system, including embedded electronic field devices, network protocols, RF communications, Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs), and various forms of master servers and their ICS applications. Skills you will learn in this course will apply directly to systems such as the Smart Grid, PLCs, RTUs, smart meters, building management, manufacturing, Home Area Networks (HAN), smart appliances, SCADA, substation automation, synchrophasors, and even IoT. This course is structured around the formal penetration testing methodology created by UtiliSec for the United States Department of Energy. Using this methodology and Control Things Pentest Platform (previously SamuraiSTFU), an open source Linux distribution for pentesting energy sector systems and other critical infrastructure, we will perform hands-on penetration testing tasks on user interfaces (on master servers and field device maintenance interfaces), control system protocols (modbus, DNP3, IEC 60870-5-104), RF communications (433MHz, 869MHz, 915MHz), and embedded circuit attacks (memory dumping, bus snooping, JTAG, and firmware analysis). We will tie these techniques and exercises back to control system devices that can be tested using these techniques. The course exercises will be performed on a mixture of real world and simulated devices to give students the most realistic experience as possible in a portable classroom setting. Advances in modern control systems such as the energy sector’s Smart Grid has brought great benefits for asset owners/operators and customers alike, however these benefits have often come at a cost from a security perspective. With increased functionality and addition inter-system communication, modern control systems bring a greater risk of compromise that vendors, asset owners/operators, and society in general must accept to realize the desired benefits. To minimize this risk, penetration testing in conjunction with other security assessment types must be performed to minimize vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit critical infrastructures that exist in all countries around the world. Ultimately, this is the goal of this course, to help you know how, when, and where this can be done safely in your control systems.

In this four-day course, the attendees will walk through the Purple Team Exercise Framework, learning each role that plays a part in purple team engagements. Students will learn to collect Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), develop and conduct Adversary Emulation plans based on gathered intelligence, then dive into detection engineering to identify and resolve missed detection opportunities. Each day is a dive into one of the roles, and the course will conclude with a capstone that puts it all together in a purple team engagement. This intermediate-level course aims to broaden the students’ understanding of purple team engagements’ different roles and responsibilities and is geared towards red teamers, blue teamers, intelligence analysts, and managers looking to expand their purple team capabilities.

This 4-day course cuts through the mystery of Cloud Services (including AWS, Azure, and G-Cloud) to uncover the vulnerabilities that lie beneath. We will cover a number of popular services and delve into both what makes them different, and what makes them the same, as compared to hacking and securing traditional network infrastructure. Whether you are an Architect, Developer, Pentester, Security or DevOps Engineer, or anyone with a need to understand and manage vulnerabilities in a Cloud environment, understanding relevant hacking techniques, and knowing how to protect yourself from them is critical. This course covers both the theory as well as a number of modern techniques that may be used to compromise various Cloud services and infrastructure. Prior pentest/security experience is not a strict requirement, however, some knowledge of Cloud Services and familiarity with common Unix command-line syntax will be beneficial.

After a sold-out course last year at Blackhat, we are back with an updated version of our course with additional coverage of ARM64, mobile browser security, and more in-depth coverage of Mobile apps and operating system security. The class starts with a basic introduction to the ARM instruction set and calling conventions followed by some reverse engineering exercises.  We then learn how to write simple exploits for the ARM64 environment. Next, we move to Mobile browser security, understand some of the browser mitigations followed by writing some simple exploits for the mobile browser. We then cover iOS and Android internals in further detail. We then discuss some of the exploitation techniques using real-world vulnerabilities (e.g., voucher_swap, checkm8, etc) followed by a walkthrough of how jailbreaks are written. We also discuss some of the common vulnerability types (Heap Overflows, Use-after-free, Uninitialized Stack variable, Race conditions). We will also look at how to build the Android kernel, customize it using Kernel tunables and then use a 1-day vulnerability to gain kernel r/w access. The training then moves on to application security based on exploiting the Damn Vulnerable iOS app, Android-lnsecureBankv2, and lnsecurePass application written by the authors of this course in addition to a broad range of other real-world applications. We then cover a variety of mitigations deployed in real-world apps and discuss how to bypass them. Slides, videos and detailed documentation on the labs will be provided to the students for practice after the class. Corellium access will be provided to students during the duration of the training course.

The NSA spent years developing Ghidra as its own internal reverse engineering suite. Now, thanks to the Technology Transfer Program, these powerful capabilities are readily available to the world. With support for dozens of architectures, Ghidra is rapidly gaining popularity as a tool of choice for analyzing compiled code. Ghidra’s extensibility through Java and Python scripting make it ideal for malware analysis and vulnerability research tasks. This class is a hands-on, example-driven introduction to reverse engineering with Ghidra. Attendees will learn the basics of using Ghidra to analyze executables before diving into examples of progressively more sophisticated reverse engineering countermeasures. As topics are introduced, students will reinforce what they’ve learned by solving reverse engineering challenges. Students may work independently or in groups to solve any of the introduced Capture the Flag style challenges. On the first day of this course, students will get familiar with Ghidra and how to create projects and import files. Students will learn how to analyze a program, follow its execution flow, and start customizing the disassembly and associated pseudocode. New for 2022, students will also get hands on time using the Ghidra’s debugger integration as well as newly updated support for binary patching. As we analyze more complicated examples, students will learn about basic tricks malware developers use to obscure functionality. We’ll look at how to identify strings being crafted within code, as well as dealing with code hidden in data sections to escape analysis. These examples will help illustrate how different options and built-in tools are used to improve analysis results. The second day brings more complicated challenges, including layered obfuscation and encryption. The lessons on this day will review in greater detail how to use the Python interpreter in Ghidra. Students will ultimately design and use custom Python scripts to analyze real malware.

Whether you are penetration testing, Red Teaming or trying to get a better understanding of managing vulnerabilities in your environment, understanding advanced hacking techniques is critical. This course covers a wide variety of neat, new and ridiculous techniques to compromise modern Operating Systems and networking devices. This lab also provides a view of logging and monitoring setup in a classic organization giving a birds eye view of how defenders see the attack. While prior pentest experience is not a strict requirement, familiarity with both Linux and Windows command line syntax will be greatly beneficial.

This is a hand-on practical concentrated course on securing and attacking web and cloud APIs. APIs are everywhere nowadays: In web apps, embedded systems, enterprise apps, cloud environments and even IoT, and it is becoming increasingly necessary to learn how to defend, secure and attack API implementation and infrastructure. This training aims to engage you in creating secure modern APIs, while showing you both new and old attack vectors.

User mode malware on Windows is ubiquitous and custom user mode implants are used regularly in red-team engagements. Knowledge of the latest malware techniques helps red teamers improve their custom tooling, malware analysts in taking apart malware, and anti-malware solution developers in designing behavioral solutions to detect malicious activity. The common theme amongst all Windows malware and implants is that they abuse the facilities provided by the Windows platform to achieve their objectives. Knowledge of the rich set of Windows APIs, understanding their usage in various stages of an implant, and leveraging them to detect and bypass various defenses in the system is essential for red and blue teamers. This training course takes attendees through a practical journey with a hands-on approach to teach them about the post-exploitation techniques used by PE file-based implants at every stage of their execution. Beneficial to both the offensive and the defensive side of the camp, the knowledge and hands-on experience gained in this training will help attendees with real-world red teaming engagements and in defending against both custom advanced persistent threat (APT) tooling and common-off-the-shelf (COTS) malware. Attendees will learn about how malware and implants interact with the latest version of Windows and how the different stages of malware abuse and exploit various components of Windows OS to achieve their goals and evade defenses.

Injection flaws have dominated web application vulnerability lists since time immemorial. And despite OWASP reducing their ranking from 1 to 3, they are still one of the most devastating web application vulnerabilities. Efforts have been made for years to secure applications against related attacks, from new frameworks to new defensive techniques. A lot has been done, but is it enough? This course enables you to walk through dozens of hacklabs and learn how – despite defensive efforts – injection flaws persist, with drastic effects on application security. Get into the attacker mindset for 2 days and deploy over 30 fresh and novel injection attacks via our state-of-the-art hacklabs. This practical course is packed with information and delivered by professional penetration testers, well-versed in web hacking from their years of experience in the wild. By the time you leave, you’ll understand how to deploy attacks using complex injection flaws. This course will be delivered virtually.