3-DAY TRAINING 1: Vulnerability Discovery and Triage Automation Training

DURATION: 3 DAYS

CAPACITY: 20 pax

SEATS AVAILABLE: 9



USD2999 (early bird)

USD3599 (normal)

Early bird registration rate ends on the 1st of September


Overview

This class is designed to introduce students to the best tools and technology available for automating vulnerability discovery and crash triage with a focus on delivering a practical approach to applying this technology in real deployments at any scale.

Through an applied understanding of introductory program analysis and binary translation, techniques for finding various bug classes and methods for improved crash debugging will be discussed. We will analyze the properties of memory corruption from integer overflows, uninitialized variables, use-after-free and look at applying tools such as compiler plugins, binary instrumentation frameworks, memory debuggers, and fuzzers to discovering each one.

Next take a deep dive into fuzzing, covering all aspects of this practical approach to finding bugs. As the most approachable and versatile of the available tools, the student will apply various fuzzing techniques to several real-world pieces of software. Students will learn strategies for analyzing attack surface, writing grammars, and generating effective corpus. We will explore in detail the latest innovations such as harnessing code coverage for guided evolutionary fuzzing and symbolic reasoning for concolic fuzzing.

We approach crash analysis through the lens of scriptable debuggers and program analysis. We will once again look at properties of how memory corruption manifests in a crashing condition. We will apply tools like reverse debugging and memory debugging scripts to assist in interactively diagnosing root cause of crashes. Then we will leverage the power of dynamic taint tracking and graph slicing to help isolate the path of user controlled input in the program and identify the exact input bytes influencing a crash. Lastly, we will look at possible ways to aid in determining severity of a vulnerability.

This class will focus on x86/x64 architecture and target Windows and Linux environments, however some discussion regarding applications to ARM and mobile platforms will also be included and all of the concepts if not the direct tools will be useful in other environments.

Who Should Attend

This class is meant for professional developers or security researchers looking to add an automation component to their software security analysis. Students wanting to learn a programmatic and tool driven approach to analyzing software vulnerabilities and crash triage will benefit from this course.

Key Learning Objectives

  • Learn an effective strategy for using the latest tools & technology to discover vulnerabilities
  • Understand applications of static analysis for bug hunting
  • Learn how to decompose programs and analyze them with powerful frameworks
  • Learn how to write basic clang-analyzer plugins
  • Introduction to intermediate languages for program analysis
  • Introduction to graph search, transformation, and slicing
  • Leverage dynamic binary translation for efficient tracing and deep program inspection
  • Master the latest fuzzing techniques and strategies for file and network fuzzing
  • Learn grammar fuzzing, evolutionary fuzzing, in-memory fuzzing, and symbolic fuzzing
  • Best practices for corpus generation, fuzzer deployment, and targeting
  • Apply powerful techniques like taint analysis and graph slicing towards crash analysis

Agenda

Day 1: Program Analysis

Morning:

Strategies for automating vulnerability discovery

Analyze properties of memory corruption vulnerabilities

Understand capabilities and applications of program analysis

Programmatic analysis of C/C++ source code

Introduction to advanced pattern matching and AST search

Introduction to using dataflow analysis for bug detection

Introduction to writing clang-analyzer plugins

Exercises: writing clang analyzer plugins

Afternoon:

Dynamic memory analysis for blackbox bug hunting

Effectively instrument Linux and Windows with binary translation

Introduction to Valgrind and Dr. Memory

Code coverage with PIN, DynamoRIO, and DynInst

Introduction to dynamic taint analysis with BAP

Exercises: code coverage, taint analysis, and property checks

Day 2: Fuzzing & Triage I

Morning:

Attack surface analysis for blackbox vulnerability research

Enumerating trust boundaries

Enumerating inputs

Leveraging graph reachability analysis

Exercises: reachability analysis

Best practices for generational and mutational fuzzing

Triggering vulnerabilities through fuzzing

Effective mutation engines

Effective corpus generation

Creating protocol and file format grammars

Crash detection

Exercises: generational fuzzing

Afternoon:

Evolutionary fuzzing

Code coverage driven fuzzing

Modifying targets for optimal evolutionary fuzzing

Best practices for high performance

Exercises: evolutionary fuzzing binary and source targets

Interactive and scripted crash debugging

Root cause identification for memory corruption bug classes

Memory debuggers and code coverage

Debugger plugins and scripting APIs

Reverse debugging

Exercises: debugger scripting

Day 3: Fuzzing & Triage II

Morning:

Advanced fuzzing

Fuzzing kernels and other architectures with QEMU

Hybrid fuzzing with concolic execution

Browser and language interpreter fuzzing

Exercises: concolic, browser, and interpreter fuzzing

Afternoon:

Advanced crash analysis

Dynamic taint analysis and graph slicing

Forward symbolic execution for exploitability analysis

Exercises: debugging with taint slicing and symbolic execution

Location: Date: October 29, 2018 Time: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Richard Johnson