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Saumil Shah (Director, Net-Square)

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April 13, 2006

Presentation Title: Writing Metasploit Plugins - From Vulnerability to Exploit
Presentation Details:

This talk shall focus on exploit development from vulnerabilities. We have seen many postings on security forums which vaguely describe a vulnerability, or sometimes provide a “proof-of-concept” exploit.

The Metasploit Framework is a powerful tool to assist in the process of vulnerability testing and exploit development. The framework can also be used as an engine to run exploits, with different payloads and post-exploitation mechanisms.

In this talk, we shall look at how we can construct exploits from published vulnerabilities, using facilities provided by the Metasploit framework. A Unix and a Windows vulnerability example shall be covered. Next we shall demonstrate how to write this exploit as a Metasploit plug-in, so that it can be integrated into the Metasploit Framework.

Participants shall get insights into discovery and verification of vulnerabilities, finding the entry points, gaining control of program flow, choices of shellcode and finally writing a working exploit for the vulnerability. Participants shall also get an overview of Metasploit’s internal modules and how to integrate custom exploits with the Metasploit framework.

Optional “bring-your-own-laptop”: This session can be designed to be quite interactive, if a local area network (wired or wireless) is available during the session. All along, participants can following the steps on their own laptops. I shall be hosting an exploit lab, which participants can connect to and try out their exploits.

About Saumil

Saumil continues to lead the efforts in e-commerce security research and product development at Net-Square. His focus is on researching vulnerabilities with various e-commerce and web based application systems, system architecture for Net-Square’s tools and products, and developing short term training programmes. Saumil also provides information security consulting services to Net-Square clients, specializing in ethical hacking and security architecture. He holds a designation of Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Saumil has had more than nine years experience with system administration, network architecture, integrating heterogenous platforms, and information security and has perfomed numerous ethical hacking exercises for many significant companies in the IT area. Saumil is a regular speaker and trainer at security conferences such as BlackHat, RSA, etc.

Previously, Saumil was the Director of Indian operations for Foundstone Inc, where he was instrumental in developing their web application security assessment methodology, the web assessment component of FoundScan - Foundstone’s Managed Security Services software and was instrumental in pioneering Foundstone’s Ultimate Web Hacking training class.

Prior to joining Foundstone, Saumil was a senior consultant with Ernst & Young, where he was responsible for the company’s ethical hacking and security architecture solutions. Saumil has also worked at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, as a research assistant and is currently a visiting faculty member there.

Saumil graduated from Purdue University with a master’s degree in computer science and a strong research background in operating systems, networking, infomation security, and cryptography. At Purdue, he was a research assistant in the COAST (Computer Operations, Audit and Security Technology) laboratory. He got his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Gujarat University, India. Saumil is a co-author of “Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense” (Addison Wesley, 2002) and is the author of “The Anti-Virus Book” (Tata McGraw-Hill, 1996)



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Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)


Malaysian Administrative Modernisation & Management Planning Unit

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Foundstone - A division of McAfee Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

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