Assembly Crash Course

Computer Systems Security

Dates

Assigned: August 30, 2022 at 1:00pm (Arizona time)
(solves before this date will not appear on the default scoreboard)

Due: September 8, 2022 at 11:00am UTC-07:00 (Arizona time)
(after this date, the live session of the dojo will move on to the next module, though solves will still count for scoreboard ranking)

For ASU extra credit due dates, please log in with an @asu.edu email address.

Lectures and Reading

An awesome intro series that covers some of the fundamentals from LiveOverflow.
A `Ike: The Systems Hacking Handbook, an excellent guide to Computer Organization.
A comprehensive assembly tutorial for several architectures (amd64 is the relevant one here).
The course "Architecture 1001: x86-64 Assembly" from OpenSecurityTraining2.

The following live sessions belong to this module. Since this module overlaps with Shellcode Injection, please also check those live video.

Challenges

Set a register

This challenge is imported from the archive-cse365 dojo's asm module!

Addition

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Multiplication

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Division

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Modulus

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Register sizes

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Bitwise shift

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Bitwise and

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Bitwise logic

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Memory reads and writes

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Data sizes

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Dynamic address memory writes

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Consecutive memory reads

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The stack

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Swap register values with the stack

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Memory reads and writes with the stack

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Control flow

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Conditional branches

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Jump tables

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Computing averages

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Implementing strlen

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Using library functions

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Compute the most common byte

This challenge is imported from the archive-cse365 dojo's asm module!

Module Ranking

This scoreboard reflects solves for challenges in this module after the module launched in this dojo.

Rank		Hacker	Badges		Score