Cyber Grand Shellphish - Shellphish and the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge

Explore the world of autonomous hacking in this conference talk from Hack.lu 2016. Dive into the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge and learn about Shellphish's Mechanical Phish, a fully-autonomous hacking system that placed third overall in the competition. Discover the challenges faced and solutions implemented during the development of this groundbreaking system, which combines symbolic execution and fuzzing to find bugs, generate exploits, and patch vulnerable binaries. Gain insights into the system's design for reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance in a no-human-intervention environment. Learn about the open-source availability of Mechanical Phish and its potential applications in automatic vulnerability discovery and exploitation. The presentation covers topics such as the DARPA Grand Challenges, fuzzing techniques, automatic exploitation, patching strategies, and competition statistics, providing a comprehensive overview of this cutting-edge advancement in cybersecurity.