Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hackers Handbook, 3rd Edition, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 15Windows Exploits

Up to this point in the book, we’ve been using Linux as our platform of choice because it’s easy for most people interested in hacking to get hold of a Linux machine for experimentation. Many of the interesting bugs you’ll want to exploit, however, are on the more-often-used Windows platform. Luckily, the same bugs can be exploited largely the same way on both Linux and Windows because they are both driven by the same assembly language underneath the hood. So in this chapter, we’ll talk about where to get the tools to build Windows exploits, show you how to use those tools, and then show you how to launch your exploit on Windows.

In this chapter, we cover the following topics:

• Compiling and debugging Windows programs ...