0x00 - This Ain’t a Guide
not a tutorial. not some guru dump. just a log.
i’m lav. 18. and i just started learning binary exploitation…
from a 9-year-old playlist on youtube.
the one by LiveOverflow - a literal legend in this space.
why now?
never touched binaries before.
yeah, i’ve been deep into hacking, scripting, bug bounties, all that.
but this… reverse engineering, registers, stack overflows, all that deep magic - i used to think it wasn’t for me.
too complex. too low-level. too much “real CS”.
turns out, it’s just memory.
and memory leaks.
the plan?
there is no plan.
i’m going video by video, playing with the code, opening gdb, writing down what breaks my brain.
not gonna pretend i know everything.
not gonna clean things up for the blog.
this is my public notepad, not a resume.
some days i’ll write wins.
some days it’ll be confusion.
both count.
what to expect
- gdb outputs
- stack diagrams (maybe ascii style if i’m feeling nerdy)
- broken C code
- “wtf just happened?” moments
- and occasionally… joy. the kind that hits when things click.
why even post this?
cause learning in public feels real.
cause someone else might need to see the messy middle.
and mostly, cause this isn’t just about binaries.
it’s about showing up.
so yeah, this is lavleaks/binexp - my journey from zero.
till the next leak :> ~ lav