EXP-312 (macOS Control Bypasses) is an offensive logical exploit development course for macOS, focusing on local privilege escalation and bypassing the operating system’s defenses. It’s an intermediate course that teaches the skills necessary to bypass security controls implemented by macOS, and exploit logic vulnerabilities to perform privilege escalation on macOS systems.
Learning Objectives
Completion of this course will provide students:
- Obtain a strong understanding of macOS internals
- Learn the basics of Mach messaging
- Learn how to bypass Transparency, Content and Control (TCC) protections
- Learn how to escape the Sandbox
- Perform symbolic link attacks
- Leverage process injection techniques
- Exploit XPC for privilege escalation
- Perform hooking based attacks
- Write Shellcode for macOS
- Bypass kernel code-signing protection
- Course Materials
- Active Student Forums
- Access to Home Lab Setup
Framework Connections
The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):
Competency Areas
Feedback
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