Awesome-Fuzzing/README.md

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A curated list of fuzzing resources ( Books, courses - free and paid, videos, tools, tutorials and vulnerable applications to practice on ) for learning Fuzzing and initial phases of Exploit Development like root cause analysis.

### Contents
- [Books](#books)
- [Courses](#courses)
   + [Free](#free)
   + [Paid](#paid)
- [Videos](#videos)
  + [NYU Poly Course videos](#nyu-poly-course-videos)
  + [Conference talks and tutorials](#conference-talks-and-tutorials)
- [Tutorials and Blogs](#tutorials-and-blogs)
- [Tools](#tools)
  + [Cloud Fuzzers](#cloud-fuzzers)
  + [File Format Fuzzers](#file-format-fuzzers)
  + [Network Protocol Fuzzers](#network-protocol-fuzzers)
  + [Browser Fuzzing](#browser-fuzzing)
  + [Taint Analysis](#taint-analysis)
  + [Symbolic Execution SAT and SMT Solvers](#symbolic-execution-sat-and-smt-solvers)
  + [Essential Tools](#essential-tools)
- [Vulnerable Applications](#vulnerable-applications)
- [Anti-Fuzzing](#anti-fuzzing)
- [Directed-Fuzzing](#directed-fuzzing)
- [Contributing](#contributing)


# Awesome Fuzzing Resources

## Books

*Books on fuzzing*
- [Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery](https://www.amazon.com/Fuzzing-Brute-Force-Vulnerability-Discovery/dp/0321446119) by Michael Sutton, Adam Greene, Pedram Amini.

- [Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance ](https://www.amazon.com/Fuzzing-Software-Security-Testing-Assurance/dp/1608078507) by Ari Takanen, Charles Miller, Jared D Demott and Atte Kettunen.

- [Open Source Fuzzing Tools](https://www.amazon.com/Open-Source-Fuzzing-Tools-Rathaus/dp/1597491950) by by Gadi Evron and Noam Rathaus.

- [Gray Hat Python](https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Hat-Python-Programming-Engineers/dp/1593271921) by Justin Seitz.

- [The Fuzzing Book](https://www.fuzzingbook.org/) by Andreas Zeller, Rahul Gopinath, Marcel Böhme, Gordon Fraser, and Christian Holler.


> **Note:** Chapter(s) in the following books are dedicated to fuzzing.

> - [The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes ( Chapter 15 )](https://www.amazon.com/Shellcoders-Handbook-Discovering-Exploiting-Security/dp/047008023X) by Chris Anley, Dave Aitel, David Litchfield and others.

> - [iOS Hacker's Handbook - Chapter 1](https://www.amazon.com/iOS-Hackers-Handbook-Charlie-Miller/dp/1118204123) Charles Miller, Dino DaiZovi, Dion Blazakis, Ralf-Philip Weinmann, and Stefan Esser.

> - [IDA Pro - The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler](https://www.amazon.com/IDA-Pro-Book-2nd-ebook/dp/B005EI84TM)


## Courses

*Courses/Training videos on fuzzing*


### Free

[NYU Poly ( see videos for more )](https://vimeo.com/5236104 ) - Made available freely by Dan Guido.

[Samclass.info ( check projects section and chapter 17 ) ](https://samsclass.info/127/127_F15.shtml) - by Sam.

[Modern Binary Exploitation ( RPISEC ) - Chapter 15 ](https://github.com/RPISEC/MBE) - by RPISEC.

[Offensive Computer Security - Week 6](https://web.archive.org/web/20200414165953/https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~redwood/OffensiveComputerSecurity/lectures.html) - by W. Owen Redwood and Prof. Xiuwen Liu.

### Paid

[Offensive Security, Cracking The Perimeter ( CTP ) and Advanced Windows Exploitation ( AWE )](https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-training/)

[SANS 660/760 Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers](https://www.sans.org/course/advanced-exploit-development-penetration-testers)

[Exodus Intelligence - Vulnerability development master class](https://blog.exodusintel.com/2016/05/18/exodus-intelligence-2016-training-course/)

[Ada Logics - Applied Source Code Fuzzing](https://adalogics.com/training-source-fuzz)

[FuzzingLabs Academy (C/C++, Rust, Go fuzzing)](https://academy.fuzzinglabs.com/)

[Signal Labs - Vulnerability Research & Fuzzing](https://signal-labs.com/trainings/vulnerability-research-fuzzing/)

## Videos

*Videos talking about fuzzing techniques, tools and best practices*


### NYU Poly Course videos
[Fuzzing 101 (Part 1)](https://vimeo.com/5236104) - by Mike Zusman.

[Fuzzing 101 (Part 2)](https://vimeo.com/5237484) - by Mike Zusman.

[Fuzzing 101 (2009)](https://vimeo.com/7574602) - by Mike Zusman.

[Fuzzing - Software Security Course on Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/lecture/software-security/fuzzing-VgyOn) - by University of Maryland.

### Conference talks and tutorials

[Attacking Antivirus Software's Kernel Driver](https://github.com/bee13oy/AV_Kernel_Vulns/tree/master/Zer0Con2017)

[Fuzzing the Windows Kernel - OffensiveCon 2020](https://github.com/yoava333/presentations/blob/master/Fuzzing%20the%20Windows%20Kernel%20-%20OffensiveCon%202020.pdf)

[Youtube Playlist of various fuzzing talks and presentations ](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtPrYlwXDImiO_hzK7npBi4eKQQBgygLD) - Lots of good content in these videos.

[Browser bug hunting - Memoirs of a last man standing](https://vimeo.com/109380793) - by Atte Kettunen

[Coverage-based Greybox Fuzzing as Markov Chain](https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~mboehme/paper/CCS16.pdf)

[DerbyCon 2016: Fuzzing basics...or how to break software](http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon6/411-fuzzing-basicshow-to-break-software-grid-aka-scott-m)

[Fuzz Theory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rE8xEg5tXk&list=PLSkhUfcCXvqG6FRTCCxIfoMK6rw3NZvb6) - by Brandon Falk


## Tutorials and Blogs

*Tutorials and blogs which explain methodology, techniques and best practices of fuzzing*

[ARMored CoreSight: Towards Efficient Binary-only Fuzzing](https://ricercasecurity.blogspot.com/2021/11/armored-coresight-towards-efficient.html)

[Fuzzing Microsoft's RDP Client using Virtual Channels: Overview & Methodology](https://thalium.github.io/blog/posts/fuzzing-microsoft-rdp-client-using-virtual-channels/)

[Fuzzing Closed Source PDF Viewers](https://www.gosecure.net/blog/2019/07/30/fuzzing-closed-source-pdf-viewers/)

[Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part One: Color Profiles](https://www.mandiant.com/resources/fuzzing-image-parsing-in-windows-color-profiles)

[Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part Two: Uninitialized Memory](https://www.mandiant.com/resources/fuzzing-image-parsing-in-windows-uninitialized-memory)

[Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part Three: RAW and HEIF](https://www.mandiant.com/resources/fuzzing-image-parsing-three)

[Fuzzing the Office Ecosystem](https://research.checkpoint.com/2021/fuzzing-the-office-ecosystem/)

[Effective File Format Fuzzing](https://j00ru.vexillium.org/slides/2016/blackhat.pdf) - Mateusz “j00ru” Jurczyk @ Black Hat Europe 2016, London

[A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing Part-1 the results](https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-year-of-windows-kernel-font-fuzzing-1_27.html) - Amazing article by Google's Project Zero, describing what it takes to do fuzzing and create fuzzers.

[A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing Part-2 the techniques](https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-year-of-windows-kernel-font-fuzzing-2.html) - Amazing article by Google's Project Zero, describing what it takes to do fuzzing and create fuzzers.

[Interesting bugs and resources at fuzzing project](https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/) - by fuzzing-project.org.

[Fuzzing workflows; a fuzz job from start to finish](https://foxglovesecurity.com/2016/03/15/fuzzing-workflows-a-fuzz-job-from-start-to-finish/) - by @BrandonPrry.

[A gentle introduction to fuzzing C++ code with AFL and libFuzzer](http://jefftrull.github.io/c++/clang/llvm/fuzzing/sanitizer/2015/11/27/fuzzing-with-sanitizers.html) - by Jeff Trull.

[A 15 minute introduction to fuzzing](https://web.archive.org/web/20161129095601/https://www.mwrinfosecurity.com/our-thinking/15-minute-guide-to-fuzzing/) - by folks at MWR Security.

> **Note:** Folks at fuzzing.info has done a great job of collecting some awesome links, I'm not going to duplicate their work. I will add papers missed by them and from 2015 and 2016.
[Fuzzing Papers](https://fuzzinginfo.wordpress.com/papers/) - by fuzzing.info

[Fuzzing Blogs and Books](https://fuzzinginfo.wordpress.com/resources/) - by fuzzing.info

[Root Cause Analysis of the Crash during Fuzzing](
https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2013/02/26/root-cause-analysis-memory-corruption-vulnerabilities/) - by Corelan Team.

[Root cause analysis of integer flow](https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2013/07/02/root-cause-analysis-integer-overflows/) - by Corelan Team.

[Creating custom peach fuzzer publishers](http://blog.opensecurityresearch.com/2014/01/creating-custom-peach-fuzzer-publishers.html) - by Open Security Research

[7 Things to Consider Before Fuzzing a Large Open Source Project](https://www.linux.com/news/7-things-consider-fuzzing-large-open-source-project/) - by Emily Ratliff.


##### From Fuzzing to Exploit:
[From fuzzing to 0-day](https://blog.techorganic.com/2014/05/14/from-fuzzing-to-0-day/) - by Harold Rodriguez(@superkojiman).

[From crash to exploit](https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2013/02/26/root-cause-analysis-memory-corruption-vulnerabilities/) - by Corelan Team.

##### Peach Fuzzer related tutorials

[Peach Fuzzer Introductionh](https://peachtech.gitlab.io/peach-fuzzer-community/Introduction.html)

[Fuzzing with Peach Part 1](http://www.flinkd.org/fuzzing-with-peach-part-1/) - by Jason Kratzer of corelan team

[Fuzzing with Peach Part 2](http://www.flinkd.org/fuzzing-with-peach-part-2-fixups-2/) - by Jason Kratzer of corelan team.

[Auto generation of Peach pit files/fuzzers](http://web.archive.org/web/20181003092741/http://doc.netzob.org/en/latest/tutorials/peach.html) - by Frédéric Guihéry, Georges Bossert.

##### AFL Fuzzer related tutorials

[Creating a fuzzing harness for FoxitReader 9.7 ConvertToPDF Function](https://www.signal-labs.com/blog/foxit-97-fuzz)

[50 CVEs in 50 Days: Fuzzing Adobe Reader](https://research.checkpoint.com/2018/50-adobe-cves-in-50-days/)

[Fuzzing sockets, part 1: FTP servers](https://securitylab.github.com/research/fuzzing-sockets-FTP)

[Fuzzing software: common challenges and potential solutions (Part 1) ](https://securitylab.github.com/research/fuzzing-challenges-solutions-1)

[Fuzzing software: advanced tricks (Part 2)](https://securitylab.github.com/research/fuzzing-software-2)

[Fuzzing workflows; a fuzz job from start to finish](https://foxglovesecurity.com/2016/03/15/fuzzing-workflows-a-fuzz-job-from-start-to-finish/) - by @BrandonPrry.

[Fuzzing capstone using AFL persistent mode](https://toastedcornflakes.github.io/articles/fuzzing_capstone_with_afl.html) - by @toasted_flakes

[RAM disks and saving your SSD from AFL Fuzzing](http://cipherdyne.org/blog/2014/12/ram-disks-and-saving-your-ssd-from-afl-fuzzing.html)

[Bug Hunting with American Fuzzy Lop](https://josephg.com/blog/bug-hunting-with-american-fuzzy-lop/)

[Advanced usage of American Fuzzy Lop with real world examples](https://volatileminds.net/2015/07/01/advanced-afl-usage.html)

[Segfaulting Python with afl-fuzz](https://tomforb.es/segfaulting-python-with-afl-fuzz)

[Fuzzing With AFL-Fuzz, a Practical Example ( AFL vs Binutils )](https://www.evilsocket.net/2015/04/30/Fuzzing-with-AFL-Fuzz-a-Practical-Example-AFL-vs-binutils/)

[The Importance of Fuzzing...Emulators?](https://mgba.io/2016/09/13/fuzzing-emulators/)

[How Heartbleed could've been found](https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/868-How-Heartbleed-couldve-been-found.html)

[Filesystem Fuzzing with American Fuzzy lop](https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slides/AFL%20filesystem%20fuzzing%2C%20Vault%202016_0.pdf)

[Fuzzing Perl/XS modules with AFL](https://medium.com/@dgryski/fuzzing-perl-xs-modules-with-afl-4bfc2335dd90)

[How to fuzz a server with American Fuzzy Lop](https://www.fastly.com/blog/how-fuzz-server-american-fuzzy-lop) - by Jonathan Foote

[Fuzzing with AFL Workshop - a set of challenges on real vulnerabilities](https://github.com/ThalesIgnite/afl-training)

[Fuzzing 101 - PHDays](https://github.com/RootUp/PHDays9)

##### libFuzzer Fuzzer related tutorials

[libFuzzer Tutorial](https://github.com/google/fuzzing/blob/master/tutorial/libFuzzerTutorial.md)

[Hunting for bugs in VirtualBox (First Take)](http://blog.paulch.ru/2020-07-26-hunting-for-bugs-in-virtualbox-first-take.html)

[libFuzzer Workshop: "Modern fuzzing of C/C++ Projects"](https://github.com/Dor1s/libfuzzer-workshop)

##### honggfuzz related tutorials

[Fuzzing ImageIO](https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/04/fuzzing-imageio.html)

[Double-Free RCE in VLC. A honggfuzz how-to](https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/double-free-rce-in-vlc-a-honggfuzz-how-to/)

##### Spike Fuzzer related tutorials

[Fuzzing with Spike to find overflows](https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/hack-like-pro-build-your-own-exploits-part-3-fuzzing-with-spike-find-overflows-0162789/)

[Fuzzing with Spike](https://samsclass.info/127/proj/p18-spike.htm) - by samclass.info


##### FOE Fuzzer related tutorials

[Fuzzing with FOE](https://samsclass.info/127/proj/p16-fuzz.htm) - by Samclass.info


##### SMT/SAT solver tutorials

[Z3 - A guide](https://www.philipzucker.com/z3-rise4fun/guide.html) - Getting Started with Z3: A Guide

##### Building a Feedback Fuzzer (for educational purposes)

[Building A Feedback Fuzzer](https://blog.fadyothman.com/tag/myfuzzer/) - by @fady_othman

## Tools

*Tools which helps in fuzzing applications*

### Cloud Fuzzers

*Fuzzers which help fuzzing in cloud environments.*

[Cloudfuzzer](https://github.com/ouspg/cloudfuzzer) - Cloud fuzzing framework which makes it possible to easily run automated fuzz-testing in cloud environments.

[ClusterFuzzer](https://google.github.io/clusterfuzz/) - ClusterFuzzer, scalable open source fuzzing infrastructure. It is used by Google for fuzzing Chrome Browser.

[Fuzzit](https://fuzzit.dev) - Fuzzit, Continuous fuzzing as a service platform. Free for open source. used by various open-source projects (systemd, radare2) and close-source projects. To join oss program drop a line at oss@fuzzit.dev

### File Format Fuzzers

*Fuzzers which helps in fuzzing file formats like pdf, mp3, swf etc.,*

[Jackalope](https://github.com/googleprojectzero/Jackalope)

[Rehepapp](https://github.com/FoxHex0ne/Rehepapp)

[Newer version of Rehepapp](https://github.com/FoxHex0ne/Rehepapp)

[pe-afl combines static binary instrumentation on PE binary and WinAFL](https://github.com/wmliang/pe-afl)

[MiniFuzz - Wayback Machine link](https://web.archive.org/web/20140512203517/http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/6/E/D6EDC908-A1D7-4790-AB0B-66A8B35CD931/MiniFuzzSetup.msi) - Basic file format fuzzing tool by Microsoft. (No longer available on Microsoft website).

[BFF from CERT](https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetID=507974) - Basic Fuzzing Framework for file formats.

[AFL Fuzzer (Linux only)]( http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/) - American Fuzzy Lop Fuzzer by Michal Zalewski aka lcamtuf

[Win AFL](https://github.com/googleprojectzero/winafl) - A fork of AFL for fuzzing Windows binaries

[Shellphish Fuzzer](https://github.com/shellphish/fuzzer) - A Python interface to AFL, allowing for easy injection of testcases and other functionality.

[TriforceAFL](https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blogs/2016/june/project-triforce-run-afl-on-everything/) - A modified version of AFL that supports fuzzing for applications whose source code not available.

[AFLGo](https://github.com/aflgo/aflgo) - Directed Greybox Fuzzing with AFL, to fuzz targeted locations of a program.

[Peach Fuzzer](https://sourceforge.net/projects/peachfuzz/) - Framework which helps to create custom dumb and smart fuzzers.

[MozPeach](https://github.com/MozillaSecurity/peach) - A fork of peach 2.7 by Mozilla Security.

[Failure Observation Engine (FOE)](https://vuls.cert.org/confluence/display/tools/CERT+FOE+-+Failure+Observation+Engine) - mutational file-based fuzz testing tool for windows applications.

[rmadair](http://rmadair.github.io/fuzzer/) - mutation based file fuzzer that uses PyDBG to monitor for signals of interest.

[honggfuzz](https://github.com/google/honggfuzz) - A general-purpose, easy-to-use fuzzer with interesting analysis options. Supports feedback-driven fuzzing based on code coverage. Supports GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX and Android.

[zzuf](https://github.com/samhocevar/zzuf) - A transparent application input fuzzer. It works by intercepting file operations and changing random bits in the program's input.

[radamsa](https://github.com/aoh/radamsa) - A general purpose fuzzer and test case generator.

[binspector](https://github.com/binspector/binspector) - A binary format analysis and fuzzing tool

[grammarinator](https://github.com/renatahodovan/grammarinator) - Fuzzing tool for file formats based on ANTLR v4 grammars (lots of grammars already available from the ANTLR project).

[Sloth](https://github.com/ant4g0nist/sloth) - Sloth 🦥 is a coverage guided fuzzing framework for fuzzing Android Native libraries that makes use of libFuzzer and QEMU user-mode emulation.

[ManuFuzzer](https://github.com/ant4g0nist/ManuFuzzer) - Binary code-coverage fuzzer for macOS, based on libFuzzer and LLVM.


### Network Protocol Fuzzers

*Fuzzers which helps in fuzzing applications which use network based protocals like HTTP, SSH, SMTP etc.,*

[Peach Fuzzer](https://sourceforge.net/projects/peachfuzz/) - Framework which helps to create custom dumb and smart fuzzers.

[Sulley](https://github.com/OpenRCE/sulley) -  A fuzzer development and fuzz testing framework consisting of multiple extensible components by Pedram Amini.

[boofuzz](https://github.com/jtpereyda/boofuzz) -  A fork and successor of Sulley framework.

[Spike](http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/SPIKE2.9.tgz) - A fuzzer development framework like sulley, a predecessor of sulley.

[Metasploit Framework](https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework) - A framework which contains some fuzzing capabilities via Auxiliary modules.

[Nightmare](https://github.com/joxeankoret/nightmare) - A distributed fuzzing testing suite with web administration, supports fuzzing using network protocols.

[rage_fuzzer](https://github.com/deanjerkovich/rage_fuzzer) - A dumb protocol-unaware packet fuzzer/replayer.

[Fuzzotron](https://github.com/denandz/fuzzotron) - A simple network fuzzer supporting TCP, UDP and multithreading.

[Mutiny](https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/mutiny-fuzzer) - The Mutiny Fuzzing Framework is a network fuzzer that operates by replaying PCAPs through a mutational fuzzer.

[Fuzzing For Worms](https://github.com/dobin/ffw) - A fuzzing framework for network servers.

[AFL (w/ networking patch)](https://github.com/jdbirdwell/afl) - An unofficial american fuzzy lop capable of network fuzzing.

[AFLNet](https://github.com/aflnet/aflnet) - A Greybox Fuzzer for Network Protocols (an extention of AFL).

[Pulsar](https://github.com/hgascon/pulsar) - Protocol Learning, Simulation and Stateful Fuzzer.

### Browser Fuzzing
[BFuzz](https://github.com/RootUp/BFuzz) - An input based, browser fuzzing framework.
[Fuzzinator](https://github.com/renatahodovan/fuzzinator) - Fuzzinator Random Testing Framework
[Grizzly](https://github.com/MozillaSecurity/grizzly) - A cross-platform browser fuzzing framework


### Misc
*Other notable fuzzers like Kernel Fuzzers, general purpose fuzzer etc.,*

[Choronzon](https://github.com/CENSUS/choronzon) - An evolutionary knowledge-based fuzzer

[QuickFuzz](https://github.com/CIFASIS/QuickFuzz) - A tool written in Haskell designed for testing un-expected inputs of common file formats on third-party software, taking advantage of off-the-shelf, well known fuzzers.

[gramfuzz](https://github.com/d0c-s4vage/gramfuzz) - A grammar-based fuzzer that lets one define complex grammars to model text and binary data formats

[KernelFuzzer](https://github.com/mwrlabs/KernelFuzzer) - Cross Platform Kernel Fuzzer Framework.

[honggfuzz](http://honggfuzz.com/) - A general-purpose, easy-to-use fuzzer with interesting analysis options.

[Hodor Fuzzer](https://github.com/nccgroup/hodor) - Yet Another general purpose fuzzer.

[libFuzzer](http://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html) - In-process, coverage-guided, evolutionary fuzzing engine for targets written in C/C++.

[syzkaller](https://github.com/google/syzkaller) - Distributed, unsupervised, coverage-guided Linux syscall fuzzer.

[ansvif](https://oxagast.github.io/ansvif/) - An advanced cross platform fuzzing framework designed to find vulnerabilities in C/C++ code.

[Tribble](https://github.com/SatelliteApplicationsCatapult/tribble) - Easy-to-use, coverage-guided JVM fuzzing framework.

[go-fuzz](https://github.com/dvyukov/go-fuzz) - Coverage-guided testing of go packages.

[FExM](https://github.com/fgsect/fexm) - Automated Large-Scale Fuzzing Framework

[Jazzer](https://github.com/CodeIntelligenceTesting/jazzer) - A coverage-guided, in-process fuzzer for the Java Virtual Machine based on libFuzzer.

[cifuzz](https://github.com/CodeIntelligenceTesting/cifuzz) - A command line tool for executing coverage-guided fuzz tests in multiple languages and targets.

[WebGL Fuzzer](https://github.com/ant4g0nist/webgl-fuzzer) - WebGL Fuzzer

[fast-check](https://fast-check.dev/) - A fuzzer tool written in TypeScript and designed to run un-expected inputs against JavaScript code.

### Taint Analysis
*How user input affects the execution*

[PANDA ( Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis )](https://github.com/moyix/panda)

[QIRA (QEMU Interactive Runtime Analyser)](http://qira.me/)

[kfetch-toolkit](https://github.com/j00ru/kfetch-toolkit) - Tool to perform advanced logging of memory references performed by operating systems’ kernels

[moflow](https://github.com/vrtadmin/moflow) - A software security framework containing tools for vulnerability, discovery, and triage.

### Symbolic Execution SAT and SMT Solvers

[Z3](https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3) - A theorem prover from Microsoft Research.

[SMT-LIB](http://smtlib.cs.uiowa.edu/) - An international initiative aimed at facilitating research and development in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)

[Symbolic execution with KLEE: From installation and introduction to bug-finding in open source software](https://adalogics.com/blog/symbolic-execution-with-klee) - A set of four instructional videos introducing KLEE, starting with how to get started with KLEE and ending with a demo that finds memory corruption bugs in real code.

### References

I haven't included some of the legends like AxMan, please refer the following link for more information.
https://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/Fuzzers


### Essential Tools

*Tools of the trade for exploit developers, reverse engineers*


#### Debuggers


[Windbg](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/debugger-download-tools) - The preferred debugger by exploit writers.

[Immunity Debugger](http://debugger.immunityinc.com) - Immunity Debugger by Immunity Sec.

[OllyDbg ](http://www.ollydbg.de/) - The debugger of choice by reverse engineers and exploit writers alike.

[Mona.py ( Plugin for windbg and Immunity dbg )](https://github.com/corelan/mona/) - Awesome tools that makes life easy for exploit developers.

[x64dbg](https://github.com/x64dbg/) - An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows.

[Evan's Debugger (EDB)](http://codef00.com/projects#debugger) - Front end for gdb.

[GDB - Gnu Debugger](http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/) - The favorite linux debugger.

[PEDA](https://github.com/longld/peda) - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB.

[Radare2](http://www.radare.org/r/) - Framework for reverse-engineering and analyzing binaries.


#### Disassemblers and some more

*Dissemblers, disassembly frameworks etc.,*


[IDA Pro](https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/index.shtml) - The best disassembler

[binnavi](https://github.com/google/binnavi) - Binary analysis IDE, annotates control flow graphs and call graphs of disassembled code.

[Capstone](https://github.com/aquynh/capstone) - Capstone is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework.


#### Others

[ltrace](http://ltrace.org/) - Intercepts library calls

[strace](https://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/) - Intercepts system calls


## Vulnerable Applications

Exploit-DB - https://www.exploit-db.com
(search and pick the exploits, which have respective apps available for download, reproduce the exploit by using fuzzer of your choice)

PacketStorm - https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/tags/exploit/

[Fuzzgoat](https://github.com/fuzzstati0n/fuzzgoat) - Vulnerable C program for testing fuzzers.

[vulnserver](https://github.com/stephenbradshaw/vulnserver) - A vulnerable server for testing fuzzers.


##### Samples files for seeding during fuzzing:

https://files.fuzzing-project.org/

[PDF Test Corpus from Mozilla](https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/tree/master/test/pdfs)

[MS Office file format documentation](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14565)

[Fuzzer Test Suite](https://github.com/google/fuzzer-test-suite) - Set of tests for fuzzing engines. Includes different well-known bugs such as Heartbleed, c-ares $100K bug and others.

[Fuzzing Corpus](https://github.com/strongcourage/fuzzing-corpus) - A corpus, including various file formats for fuzzing multiple targets in the fuzzing literature.

## Anti Fuzzing

[Introduction to Anti-Fuzzing: A Defence In-Depth Aid](https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blogs/2014/january/introduction-to-anti-fuzzing-a-defence-in-depth-aid/)

[Fuzzification: Anti-Fuzzing Techniques](https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19/presentation/jung)

[AntiFuzz: Impeding Fuzzing Audits of Binary Executables](https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19/presentation/guler)

## Directed Fuzzing

[Awesome Directed Fuzzing](https://github.com/strongcourage/awesome-directed-fuzzing): A curated list of awesome directed fuzzing research papers.

## Contributing

[Please refer the guidelines at contributing.md for details](Contributing.md).

Thanks to the following folks who made contributions to this project.
+ [Tim Strazzere](https://twitter.com/timstrazz)
+ [jksecurity](https://github.com/jksecurity)
+ [and these awesome people](https://github.com/secfigo/Awesome-Fuzzing/graphs/contributors)