/tags/exploits/ Recent content in Exploits on scarbrough.co.uk Hugo en-us Thu, 08 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 /post/security/payload-crafting/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 /post/security/payload-crafting/ See the original post on my WordPress site According to Wikipedia: ‘shellcode is a small piece of code used as the payload in the exploitation of a software vulnerability. It is called “shellcode” because it typically starts a command shell from which the attacker can control the compromised machine, but any piece of code that performs a similar task can be called shellcode.’ Perhaps the most straightforward example of this would be a buffer overflow exploit, the shellcode being what’s carried into the next buffer for execution.