Reverse Engineering and Exploit Development (Udemy.com)

The focus in this course is on exploit development in particular, not reverse engineering in general. All in all it gives you a nice overview, but don't expect to gain a deep understanding from this course, but it gets your feet wet. Some things are overexplained, but others lack a bit of explanation, in particular, I would have liked more explanation on how programs are executed at the low level as I do not have any real experience programming in assembly.

This is a fantastic course. If you are diving into REM or Ethical Hacking - this course will explain several things in a different way that will make exploitation easier. I've seen and used other methods, but the ones used in this course simplify them and are straight forward. This course is worth it. Would love to see a Course on Advance Reverse Engineering Malware where there is a complete walkthrough and explanation on at least 3 different types of malware. The techniques and the "why" do this, and not that explanations. I'm really getting into REM, but I wonder if I'm missing stuff. Hiring managers want to see experience and if a student if faulty they will never get hired if they don't know the actual material & how to work through it. Just a suggestion! Great Course!!!

I have a few years of RE experience and was taking this class to see if it was something I could recommend to my new employees. Overall I feel like there was some good information covered in this class, I like that you gave examples of some different tools and where to get them. Unfortunately I felt like the order of some of the videos was just wrong. It reminded me of an episode of the TV show "Ice Road Truckers" on Discovery channel where they keep jumping back and forth among different areas. I feel this class and the information taught would have been much more effective if the videos were ordered better and you completed 1 area before jumping to the next. For example you talk about stack overflows and give partial information, then jump to heap overflows with partial information, then format strings. Quite a few videos later you go back to stack overflows and give more details but by then anything you talked about in the first video is most likely going to have been forgotten. This happened numerous times with different content sections. At one point I paused a video to make sure I didn't have some random order button turned on for the videos. I feel if you just covered stack overflows from start to finish, before jumping into heap overflows it would have been much more intuitive. My next issue was that I think took away from the class was your bias towards Linux. I also like to use Linux, but your bias against Windows is obvious. I feel that do to your bias against Windows, some of the information you provided could give less knowledge people the wrong idea about it. In one video you state Linux is better because gcc automatically provides stack protection and won't let you execute code on it by default. Well newer compilers and versions of Windows do the same thing, but the way you word it makes it sound as if it doesn't. You are comparing newer versions of Ubuntu against Windows XP which has been EOL for years.

a good crash course in reversing but needs updating as a lot of these vulnerabilities have been addressed with DEP/ASLR so they wont work on Win10 unless you shut those off, a lot of these tools dont exist anymore / are not Win10 friendly so youll need to find alternatives; otherwise, youll need to have a windows XP ISO handy for the labs. if you have a comp sci background (are somewhat familiar with C / assembly / computer architecture), this is good for someone who sort of knows what they are doing. If you are a true beginner, a lot of this will be over your head.

It's really hard to rate this. Dr. Phil is amazing. I wish I were his student. Content is good. But when it is come to rating i need to be honest to community. Presentation is bad. It is really hard to follow. While he is telling about something in CLI or analysing some code i couldnt catch him. It maybe my problem but in my opinion there should be some video effects such as hovering, putting arrows etc... Even i give 3.5 starts i think it's the best course about Reverse engineering on Udemy. Thank you Dr. Phil.

For $10 it's a good introductory course. - The information presented is more introductory than anything else, which is good, but it wasn't as in-depth as I had expected. You'll get an idea of what tools to use, and the types of exploits issues you might find in code, as well as the general process of writing an exploit and adding it to Metasploit, but it is all essentially an overview and you will have to go find a lot more resources afterwards to truly learn how to properly do any of these things. (All the information provided could probably just fit into a wikipedia article). - There is also a lot of fluff that is not really necessary. (Eg. The OSX and Unix sections are pretty much just the same as the Windows sections and are longer than they really should be. The Web Exploitation section seems shoe-horned and is completely irrelevant). - The quality of audio/video is great. Prof. does speak slowly so you can probably watch the whole thing in x2 speed.

There is a lot to cover on this topic, and I think this course does a good job at giving an intro to many different concepts that someone would need to learn about in order to do exploit development. Examples were easy to follow, and material was well explained. I would like to see a deeper dive in a more advanced course by this same author, specifically into either Windows or Linux vulnerability exploitation (heap exploitation, UAF exploitation, etc). Great course!

As an computer science student i would like just to mention, that this course does not include assembly beginner guide, to start this course you should have some basic knowledge of assembly. If we would talk about overall course quality for beginners is great, the actual one thing i missed in this course was more briefly explained theory over the exploits development.

The instructor goes through all of the important details necessary to get started with reverse engineering. Any areas where more detail is desired can easily be supplemented with a quick google search. The course also goes nicely with the one on assembly.

If you want to be an Ub3rl1t3H4x0r (or defend against them) this is the place to start. Nut-and-bolts down-on-the-metal intro to how exploits are created and how they work. The instructor shows you how the dark arts work step-by-step in easy bite-sized info-bits. Now finally I now know exactly what a Stack Overrun and a Heap Overrun vulnerability are and how to create them I also know what a no-op sled is and many other concepts. I've been through the course twice now and still I haven't mined all the knowledge out of it because so much is presented. This course is a most valuable starting point for any security researcher. Best course I've taken in years. I highly recommend this course!