CHAPTER 16

 

Exploiting IE: Smashing the Heap

This chapter shows you the different techniques used in 0-day attacks, as disclosed in 2013 and 2014, to place malicious code (shellcode) at predictable addresses in the heap.

            In this chapter, we cover the following topics:

            •  Spraying with HTML5

            •  DOM Element Property Spray (DEPS)

            •  HeapLib2 technique

            •  Flash spray with byte arrays

            •  Flash spray with integer vectors

            •  Leveraging low fragmentation heap (LFH)

 

Setting Up the Environment

Before learning about the different heap spray techniques, it is imperative that you have a solid understanding of how to configure and use WinDbg Debugger since we will use ...

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