coding

Reverse engineering structures for beginners

Oct 16, 2025

hacking

binaryninja, c, coding, educationalsabbatical, programming, reverse-engineering

This is something I always found voodoo, figuring out how to recognize structures in decompiled binary code. Table of contents Introduction A struct is a data structure in C/C++ that groups variables of different types. I will be using BinaryNinja in this demonstration. I chose libz.1.3.1.dylib and also had access to the source code via…
ret2libc – for beginners

Sep 7, 2025

hacking

c, coding, computers, htb, programming, pwn, ret2libc, rop, technology

I recently started learning binary exploitation (pwn), and this challenge introduced me to several key concepts. I found it particularly interesting, so I wrote this blog post to explore the details more deeply and solidify my understanding. Table of contents Introduction Opening up the binary in binaryninja, we go through the code to find the…