WIP, PRs always welcome. Goal is to collect resources on binary exploitation, with focus on beginner-friendly stuff. :)
Exploit Exercises (Protostar, Nebola, etc.) Mirror, Video walkthrough
exploit-exercises.com provides a variety of virtual machines, documentation and challenges that can be used to learn about a variety of computer security issues such as privilege escalation, vulnerability analysis, exploit development, debugging, reverse engineering, and general cyber security issues.
Nightmare
Nightmare is an intro to binary exploitation / reverse engineering course based around ctf challenges. I call it that because it's a lot of people's nightmare to get hit by weaponized 0 days, which these skills directly translate into doing that type of work (plus it's a really cool song).
Pwnable.kr
'pwnable.kr' is a non-commercial wargame site which provides various pwn challenges regarding system exploitation. the main purpose of pwnable.kr is 'fun'. please consider each of the challenges as a game. while playing pwnable.kr, you could learn/improve system hacking skills but that shouldn't be your only purpose.
Using GDB to Develop Exploits - A Basic Run Through (2006)
Julia Evans: How to look at the stack with gdb (2021)
Azeria Labs
Get started learning about Arm security with online tutorials on Arm assembly, binary exploitation, lab setup and more.
Dhaval Kapil: Buffer Overflow Exploit (2015)
Coen Goedegebure: Buffer overflow attacks explained (2018)
0xRick: Binary Exploitation - Buffer Overflow Explained in Detail
Aleph One: Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit (1996)
Reversing for dummies - x86 assembly and C code (Beginner/ADHD friendly) (2021)
Hacking The Art of Exploitation [Live-CD] (2008)
Rather than merely showing how to run existing exploits, author Jon Erickson explains how arcane hacking techniques actually work. To share the art and science of hacking in a way that is accessible to everyone, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition introduces the fundamentals of C programming from a hacker's perspective.