Title : Introduction

Author : The Phrack Staff

==Phrack Inc.== Volume 0x0f, Issue 0x45, Phile #0x01 of 0x10 |=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=| |=-------------------------=[ Introduction ]=----------------------------=| |=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=| |=----------------------=[ by the Phrack staff ]=------------------------=| |=-----------------------=[ staff@phrack.org ]=--------------------------=| |=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=| |=-------------------------=[ May 6, 2016 ]=---------------------------=| |=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=| ... A long time ago in a galaxy far far away ... ______ _ _ | ___ \ | | | | |_/ / |__ _ __ __ _ ___| | __ | __/| '_ \| '__/ _` |/ __| |/ / | | | | | | | | (_| | (__| < \_| |_| |_|_| \__,_|\___|_|\_\ _ _ ____ _____ _| || |_ / ___|| _ | |_ __ _/ /___ | |_| | _| || |_| ___ \\____ | |_ __ _| \_/ |.___/ / |_||_| \_____/\____/ --[ Introduction Hello Phrack readers! It has been a long time, hasn't it? Aren't you relieved that the world didn't end in 2012?! What if the Mayans were right? What if comets hit Earth? Yes, we were worried too, so we decided to take some time off and enjoy the last days of this planet. Once enough time had passed, we were pretty sure our species was not going to disappear. It was about time we returned to our blinking terminals again and finish what we started :> Um... yeah, that's the reason the last Phrack release was back in 2012... Um... Kind of... Damn, it took so long that even a Star Wars sequel was shot in the meantime! Anywayz, the Phrack Staff is back again, with a slightly different editorial, bringing you an awesome collection of articles from several respected hackers and other thinkers. No, we are not going to write a Prophile on our new team. Yes, there are still people who prefer Phrack over media whoring. The world is full of surprises. It took quite some time, but we hope this issue of Phrack will meet your expectations. One new addition to Phrack is the "Paper Feed" feature. The way it works is that you submit a paper, we review it and it gets published. No need to wait a month (or two years ;-) until you see your article in the next Phrack issue. When the time has come, we'll decide to compile a new issue from the articles that have been submitted. The usual rules do however still apply: we are proud of being one of the longest-running magazines and we're especially proud of presenting quality content to our readers (yes, that's you). Papers submitted to the paper feed are no exception! Phrack #69 brings you three new technical articles in addition to paper feed and the standard Linenoise, Loopback and International Scenes philes. The Firefox hater code-named argp presents advanced exploitation techniques and attempts to build abstract primitives for taking advantage of various memory-related vulnerabilities on your "favorite" multi-heap browser ;> Huku, some guy who, obviously, visits porn sites a lot, has written an art of exploitation phile focusing on Adobe Flash Player (hey, this is not P0 man!). Last but not least, uty presents a VT-x based technique for installing inline hooks and backdooring a whole system. We have spent much time debugging this, we hope you *do* like it. This release also comes with an excellent prophile on Solar Designer, a person we all respect for his knowledge, attitude and contributions. We were initially hesitant to contact him (yeah this guy has a damn busy schedule), but it turned out that Solar was positive about being prophiled. We believe this prophile will inspire a lot of people in the scene - it's undoubtedly one of the best prophiles ever published in Phrack and a great honor for all readers. Enjoy maafakaz! --[ Dark thoughts about the future As we mentioned above, you have probably noticed a big change in the way Phrack papers are released. We have decided to also have a paper feed mode in addition to periodic releases, where each submitted work, that meets the requirements, is released as soon as it has undergone proper reviewing. We understand that this may not be as cool as releasing an issue at once, but it was a necessary choice we had to make to avoid having Phrack fade out of existence. The hope with this, is that now all you crazy world traveling, conference speaking rockstars may have a medium for releasing a deeper dive into the technology that you are presenting, and we can publish this at the exact moment you are on stage. Personally, we would much prefer this than trying to extract it ourselves from your pretty slide decks. I guess we are all responsible for this. The community as a whole. The hackers, the phreakers and all those tech perverts out there who have stopped supporting Phrack. Trust me you would be disappointed if you had a look at our inbox... or maybe no one uses ANTISPAM anymore? :> For all you hackers out there thinking "I don't have a large project ready for paper generation", consider writing something for Linenoise. Linenoise submissions take between a few hours and one day. As a community everyone has some small technique or cool trick that can save other people time, Linenoise offers an easy place to share these. In this issue you will find a very interesting article titled "The Fall of Hacker Groups". Take some time to read it through and wonder why the fuck did we get here. The state of mind of the community seems to be changing dramatically - what have you done to prevent hacking from practically disappearing? Quoting Phrack #63: "As long as there are hackers, there will be PHRACK magazine." Now take some time, read this issue carefully, and notice the "as long as" part in the previous sentence :> --[ Table of contents 0x01 Introduction ........................................ Phrack Staff 0x02 Phrack Prophile on Solar Designer ................... Phrack Staff 0x03 Phrack World News ................................... Phrack Staff 0x04 Linenoise ........................................... various 0x05 Loopback ............................................ Phrack Staff 0x06 The Fall of Hacker Groups ........................... strauss 0x07 Revisiting Mac OS X Kernel Rootkits ................. fG! 0x08 Adobe Shockwave: A case study on memory disclosure ................... Aaron Portnoy 0x09 Modern Objective-C Exploitation Techniques .......... nemo 0x0a Self-patching Microsoft XML with misalignments and factorials ...................................... Alisa Esage 0x0b Internet Voting: A Requiem for the Dream ............ kerrnel 0x0c Attacking Ruby on Rails Applications ................ joernchen 0x0d Obituary for an Adobe Flash Player bug .............. huku 0x0e OR'LYEH? The Shadow over Firefox .................... argp 0x0f How to hide a hook: A hypervisor for rootkits ....... uty & saman 0x10 International Scenes ................................ various --[ Greetings & thanks For this issue we have a long list of people we would like to thank. This issue wouldn't be complete had it not been for their support. * strauss : Straus.. staruss... strsauss.. whatever man! * fG! : The legendary white hat(ed) hero! * Aaron Portnoy : Real name detected! * nemo : That lolcat you see in various memes ;-) * Alisa Esage : Knows how to write exploits and doesn't work for P0 * kerrnel : What's with the extra "r"? * joernchen : Ruby two-handed fapper * argp : Hardcore Shakira fan - Favorite song "Heaps don't lie" * huku : Casual youporn uploader * sysk : Proud yolo Phrack supporter * uty & saman : Makefiles suck! * solardiz : Awesomeness prophiled * fjserna : Guest reviewer of, well, you can figure out what * anonymous : You know who you are, thanks for you support! Last but not least, Phrack Staff is indebted to <redacted> *wink *wink* for his support all these years. You have our respect for everything you have offered to this magazine. We are now in different teams, but we will always be glad to have some beers with you and talk about dirty hacks ;> See you soon man! Phrack is back! Prepare your arse for a new awesome release of your favorite zine. --[ Phrack policy phrack:~# head -77 /usr/include/std-disclaimer.h /* * All information in Phrack Magazine is, to the best of the ability of * the editors and contributors, truthful and accurate. When possible, * all facts are checked, all code is compiled. However, we are not * omniscient (hell, we don't even get paid). It is entirely possible * something contained within this publication is incorrect in some way. * If this is the case, please drop us some email so that we can correct * it in a future issue. * * * Also, keep in mind that Phrack Magazine accepts no responsibility for * the entirely stupid (or illegal) things people may do with the * information contained herein. Phrack is a compendium of knowledge, * wisdom, wit, and sass. 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