Shellcode Research

A restored 2018 research article on a C-based Rijndael-128 (AES) shellcode crypter, runtime decryption and controlled payload execution.

A restored 2018 research article transforming three Linux x86 payloads with equivalent instruction sequences to study shellcode polymorphism and size trade-offs.

A restored 2018 GDB-PEDA analysis of Metasploit’s Linux x86 read-file payload and its open, read, write and exit system-call flow.

A restored 2018 analysis of Metasploit’s Linux x86 IPv6 reverse TCP payload using libemu and strace, comparing its socket structures with IPv4.

A restored 2018 disassembly-led analysis of Metasploit’s Linux x86 add-user payload and its setreuid, open, write and exit system-call sequence.

A restored research article on RNX2, a custom Linux x86 shellcode encoder combining XOR, XOR, NOT and rotation with an assembly decoder stub.

A restored 2018 article on Linux x86 egghunter design, memory scanning, EFAULT handling, SCASD comparisons and staged payload discovery.

A restored 2018 article on a compact null-free Linux x86 reverse TCP shell, accepted as Exploit-DB EDB-ID 43433, with dynamic IP and port generation.

A restored 2018 Linux x86 bind-shell engineering article covering system-call analysis, null-byte removal, reduction from 108 to 80 bytes and dynamic port generation.