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XNU Spelunking or Fuzzing the kernel inside your kernel

RECon · Montreal, Canada

XNU, the OS X kernel, is made up of a somewhat unholy marriage of the monolithic BSD kernel and the CMU mach microkernel. Because of this marriage, in addition to BSD syscalls, XNU provides additional …

video Jesse D'Aguanno

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Mach Shellcodes and Injectable OS X Rootkits

RECon · Montreal, Canada

Using the Mach interfaces in the OS X kernel to manipulate the kernel from user space, i.e. from shellcode, to alter kernel structures. Example shellcodes are included.

slides Jesse D'Aguanno

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IRK: Crafting OS X Kernel Rootkits

Black Hat USA 2008 · Las Vegas, NV

Apple’s OS X operating system has been gaining in popularity. This presentation details how to manipulate the OS X kernel in order to hide an attacker’s activities and maintain access.

slides Jesse D'Aguanno