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Awesome ARM Exploitation

A collection of awesome videos, articles, books, tools and resources about ARM exploitation.

Contents

• Conference Talks / Videos
• Articles / Papers
• Resources
• CTF / Training Binaries
• Books
• Tools
• Courses
• Related Awesome Lists
• Contributing

Conference Talks / Videos

• Exploitation on ARM - Itzhak Avraham - Defcon 18 (2010)
• ARM Exploitation ROPMAP - Long Le - Blackhat USA (2011)
• Advanced ARM Exploitation - Stephen Ridley & Stephen Lawler - Blackhat USA (2012)
• ARM Assembly and Shellcode Basics - Saumil Shah - 44CON (2017)
• Heap Overflow Exploits for Beginners (ARM Exploitation Tutorial) - Billy Ellis (2017)
• Introduction to Exploitation on ARM64 - Billy Ellis - Codetalks (2018)
• Make ARM Shellcode Great Again - Saumil Shah - Hack.lu (2018)
• ARM Memory Tagging, how it improves C++ memory safety - Kostya Serebryany - LLVM (2018)
• Breaking Samsung's ARM Trustzone
• Hacker Nightmares: Giving Hackers a Headache with Exploit Mitigations - Azeria - Virtual Arm Research Summit (2020)

Articles / Papers

• ARM Assembly Basics Series - Azeria
• ARM Binary Exploitation Series - Azeria
• Smashing the ARM Stack - Mercked Security
• Introduction to ARMv8 64-bit Architecture - pnuic
• Alphanumeric RISC ARM Shellcode - (Phrack) - Yves Younan, Pieter Philippaerts
• Return-Oriented Programming on a Cortex-M Processor
• 3or ARM Exploitation Series - Dimitrios Slamaris
• Developing StrongARM/Linux Shellcode - (Phrack) - funkysh
• Reversing and Exploiting ARM Binaries - Mathy Vanhoef
• ARM Exploitation for IoT Series - Andrea Sindoni
• Reverse Engineering of ARM Microcontrollers - Rdomanski
• ARM64 Reversing and Exploitation Part 1 - ARM Instruction Set + Simple Heap Overflow - HighAltitudeHacks

Resources

• ARM Architecture Reference Manual
• Online ARM Assembler
• ARM TEE Reversing and Exploitation

CTF / Training Binaries

• Exploit Me
• Exploit Challenges
• Azeria ARM Lab

Books

• Practical Reverse Engineering (Chapter 2) - Bruce Dang, Alexandre Gazet and Elias Bachalany
• Beginners Guide to Exploitation on ARM - Volumes 1 & 2 - Billy Ellis
• ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals & Techniques - William Hohl

Tools

• Ropper

Courses

• Azeria ARM Training
• Pentest Academy ARM Assembly
• Pentest Academy Reverse Engineering for ARM Platforms
• IHackArm Offensive ARM Exploitation

Related Awesome Lists

• Awesome Android Security
• Awesome iOS Security
• Awesome IoT Hacks
• Awesome Exploit Development

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!