A curated list of fuzzing resources ( Books, courses - free and paid, videos, tools, tutorials and vulnerable applications to practice on ) for learning Fuzzing and initial phases of Exploit Development like root cause analysis.
## Books *Books on fuzzing*-
Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery by Michael Sutton, Adam Greene, Pedram Amini.
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Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance by Ari Takanen, Charles Miller, and Jared D Demott.
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Open Source Fuzzing Tools by by Gadi Evron and Noam Rathaus.
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Gray Hat Python by Justin Seitz.
Note: Chapter(s) in the following books are dedicated to fuzzing.
- The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes ( Chapter 15 ) by Chris Anley, Dave Aitel, David Litchfield and others.
- iOS Hacker's Handbook - Chapter 1 Charles Miller, Dino DaiZovi, Dion Blazakis, Ralf-Philip Weinmann, and Stefan Esser.
IDA Pro - The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler.
## CoursesCourses/Training videos on fuzzing
### FreeNYU Poly ( see videos for more ) - Made available freely by Dan Guido.
Samclass.info ( check projects section and chapter 17 ) - by Sam.
Modern Binary Exploitation ( RIPESEC ) - Chapter 15 - by RPISEC.
Offensive Computer Security - Week 6 - by W. Owen Redwood and Prof. Xiuwen Liu.
### Paid ( $$$ ) [Offensive Security, Cracking The Perimeter ( CTP ) and Advanced Windows Exploitation ( AWE )](https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-training/)SANS 660/760 Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers
## VideosVideos talking about fuzzing techniques, tools and best practices
Fuzzing 101 (Part 1) - by Mike Zusman.
Fuzzing 101 (Part 2) - by Mike Zusman.
Fuzzing 101 (2009) - by Mike Zusman.
Fuzzing - Software Security Course on Coursera - by University of Maryland.
### Conference talks/tutorials on Fuzzing [Youtube Playlist of various fuzzing talks and presentations ](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtPrYlwXDImiO_hzK7npBi4eKQQBgygLD) Consider watching talks from Charlie Miller, [Browser bug hunting - Memoirs of a last man standing](https://vimeo.com/109380793) - by Atte Kettunen ## Tutorials/Blogs.Tutorials and blogs which explain methodology, techniques and best practices of fuzzing
A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing Part-1 the results - Amazing article by Google's Project Zero, describing what it takes to do fuzzing and create fuzzers.
A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing Part-2 the techniques - Amazing article by Google's Project Zero, describing what it takes to do fuzzing and create fuzzers.
Interesting bugs and resources at fuzzing project - by fuzzing-project.org.
Fuzzing workflows; a fuzz job from start to finish - by @BrandonPrry.
A gentle introduction to fuzzing C++ code with AFL and libFuzzer - by Jeff Trull.
A 15 minute introduction to fuzzing - by folks at MWR Security.
Note: Folks at fuzzing.info has done a great job of collecting some awesome links, I'm not going to duplicate their work. I will add papers missed by them and from 2015 and 2016. Fuzzing Papers - by fuzzing.info
Fuzzing Blogs - by fuzzing.info
Root Cause Analysis of the Crash during Fuzzing - by Corelan Team. Root cause analysis of integer flow - by Corelan Team.
Creating custom peach fuzzer publishers - by Open Security Research
7 Things to Consider Before Fuzzing a Large Open Source Project - by Emily Ratliff.
From fuzzing to 0-day - by Harold Rodriguez(@superkojiman).
From crash to exploit - by Corelan Team.
Getting Started with Peach Fuzzing with Peach Part 1 - by Jason Kratzer of corelan team. Fuzzing with Peach Part 2 - by Jason Kratzer of corelan team. Auto generation of Peach pit files/fuzzers - by Frédéric Guihéry, Georges Bossert.
Fuzzing workflows; a fuzz job from start to finish - by @BrandonPrry.
Fuzzing with Spike to find overflows
Fuzzing with Spike - by samclass.info
Fuzzing with FOE - by Samclass.info
## ToolsTools which helps in fuzzing applications
Fuzzers which helps in fuzzing file formats like pdf, mp3, swf etc.,
MiniFuzz - Basic file format fuzzing tool by Microsoft.
BFF from CERT - Basic Fuzzing Framework for file formats.
AFL Fuzzer (Linux only) - American Fuzzy Loop Fuzzer by Michal Zalewski aka lcamtuf
Win AFL - A fork of AFL for fuzzing Windows binaries by Ivan Fratic
TriforceAFL - A modified version of AFL that supports fuzzing for applications whose source code not available.
Peach Fuzzer - Framework which helps to create custom dumb and smart fuzzers.
MozPeach - A fork of peach 2.7 by Mozilla Security.
Failure Observation Engine (FOE) - mutational file-based fuzz testing tool for windows applications.
rmadair - mutation based file fuzzer that uses PyDBG to monitor for signals of interest.
### Network Protocol FuzzersFuzzers which helps in fuzzing applications which use network based protocals like HTTP, SSH, SMTP etc.,
Peach Fuzzer - Framework which helps to create custom dumb and smart fuzzers.
Sulley - A fuzzer development and fuzz testing framework consisting of multiple extensible components by Michael Sutton.
boofuzz - A fork and successor of Sulley framework.
Spike - A fuzzer development framework like sulley, a predecessor of sulley.
Metasploit Framework - A framework which contains some fuzzing capabilities via Auxiliary modules.
### Taint Analysis ( How user input affects the execution)PANDA ( Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis )
QIRA (QEMU Interactive Runtime Analyser)
### Symbolic Execution + SAT/SMT Solvers [Z3](https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3)I haven't included some of the legends like AxMan, please refer the following link for more information. https://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/Fuzzers
### Essential Tools (generic)Tools of the trade for exploit developers, reverse engineers
Windbg - The preferred debugger by exploit writers.
Immunity Debugger - Immunity Debugger by Immunity Sec.
OllyDbg - The debugger of choice by reverse engineers and exploit writers alike.
Mona.py ( Plugin for windbg and Immunity dbg ) - Awesome tools that makes life easy for exploit developers.
x64dbg - An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows.
Evan's Debugger (EDB) - Front end for gdb.
GDB - Gnu Debugger - The favorite linux debugger.
PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB.
Radare2 - Framework for reverse-engineering and analyzing binaries.
#### Disassemblers and some moreDissemblers, disassembly frameworks etc.,
IDA Pro - The best disassembler
binnavi - Binary analysis IDE, annotates control flow graphs and call graphs of disassembled code.
Capstone - Capstone is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework.
#### Othersltrace - Intercepts library calls
strace - Intercepts system calls
## Vulnerable Applications Exploit-DB - https://www.exploit-db.com (search and pick the exploits, which have respective apps available for download, reproduce the exploit by using fuzzer of your choice)https://files.fuzzing-project.org/
MS Office file format documentation
## Contributing