Polymorphic Shellcode — SecurityTube Linux Assembly Expert 32 bit — Exercise 6

Onward to the SLAE32 exercise series, today we have the exciting world of polymorphic shellcodes. Lets define it before we delve into it.

polymorphic(adjective) : occurring in several different forms, in particular with reference to species or genetic variation.

That is the dictionary meaning of the word and in our case it means a variation of the existing shellcode. Now you would ask why do we need a variation? The answer is simply because we would like to obfuscate or…