Pentesting, Malware Development, Malware Analysis, and Reversing stuff.

Five Ghosts in Ring Zero - Autopsies of Windows Kernel Exploits That Vanished Under Proof


A deep Windows 11 24H2 kernel-reversing write-up about five vulnerability candidates that looked reportable in static analysis - a near-4 GiB FileCrypt integer wrap, an ahcache kernel-address oracle, a BindFlt minifilter underflow, an IntelPEP pool overflow, and a KSecDD raw callback registration primitive - and the exact runtime, producer-contract, filesystem, and boot-lifetime invariants that killed every one before it reached MSRC.
Read more ⟶

Refuting a condrv Kernel Read - Chasing a COMPLETE_IO memmove Through the Console IPC and a Self-Verifying PoC, Only to Lose to One Decompiler-Hidden ProbeForRead on Windows 11 24H2


A deep reverse-engineering write-up of the most promising false positive of a Windows 11 24H2 kernel-driver research - a seemingly unprivileged arbitrary-kernel-address read in condrv.sys where a console server names a raw SourcePtr that the driver memmoves into a client's MDL-mapped output buffer via IOCTL_CONDRV_COMPLETE_IO - that survived a triage pass, a five-item adversarial kill-list, and full protocol extraction, produced a self-verifying dual-role PoC whose control case passed cleanly, and then collapsed the instant a kernel VA was named, killed by an inlined ProbeForRead the Hex-Rays decompiler folded to nothing.
Read more ⟶

The Sandbox Broker That Couldn't Be Confused - Forging an AppContainer Token to Reach bfs.sys and Failing to Path-Confuse a File Broker That Re-Runs the Access Check in the Caller's Own Context on Windows 11 24H2


A reverse-engineering write-up of a refuted sandbox-escape candidate in bfs.sys the Brokering File System on Windows 11 24H2 build 26100 - the device opens for a normal token and its per-IOCTL capability gate is passable by forging an AppContainer lowbox token carrying bfs's capability SID via NtCreateLowBoxToken, but the path and rename brokering opens every target with OBJ_FORCE_ACCESS_CHECK in the caller's own non-impersonated context against an FLT-normalized canonical name, so the broker can only ever touch files the sandbox could already open itself, leaving no path confusion, no TOCTOU, no privilege amplification, and nothing to report.
Read more ⟶

FireFlow - Chaining Langflow RCE, JWT Abuse, and Kubernetes nodes/proxy to Root an HTB Box


A full pwn write-up of the HTB box "FireFlow", chaining an unauthenticated Langflow RCE (CVE-2026-33017), credential looting from environment variables, a JWT 'none' algorithm bypass on an internal MCP AI Tool Registry, malicious tool registration for in-cluster RCE, and Kubernetes nodes/proxy abuse via kubelet /exec to read the root flag from a privileged node-exporter pod.
Read more ⟶

Dudsat - Reversing a Doppler-Disguised Permutation Cipher


Reverse engineering write-up for the HTB challenge "rev_dudsat" - recovering a flag hidden in the residuals of satellite telemetry by reconstructing a permutation table built at process startup.
Read more ⟶

Sysprobe - Five Layers of Onion, One DFT, One Flag


HTB reversing write-up. Outer ELF is a decoy; the real entry point lives in a hidden RWE segment with no section header, jumps into a DEFLATE-packed nested ELF, which mmap-XORs a 62-byte bytecode for a stack VM, which runs a tiny DFT magnitude check whose output bitmap, packed MSB-first, is the flag.
Read more ⟶

SANDY - Malware Reverse Challenge


SANDY is a Huntress 2025 CTF reverse engineering challenge where you analyze a malicious binary, uncover its logic, and extract the hidden flag.
Read more ⟶

RC4 Reverse Engineering


Reverse engineering RC4 in Windows malware using SystemFunction032 to extract keys and decrypt the payload.
Read more ⟶

Verification Clarification


NahamCon2025 CTF Malware Reversing Challenge
Read more ⟶

Automating SQL Server Linked-Server Password Recovery with PowerShell


A PowerShell toolkit that automates enabling TCP/IP, adding -T7806, enabling the DAC, and decrypting SQL Server linked-server passwords - for legal, authorized use only.
Read more ⟶