Get the materials for the Preliminary Round of the Memory Corruption Forensics Competition at: http://sites.psu.edusacomptest Links to an external site.

Download the VM materials from this link. Get the right VM for your Hypervisor. The .OVA file is for VMWare. The .VDI file is for virtualbox.

https://psu.app.box.com/s/errta4fpx54pqm238z7sr95r46k8pzy1 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Install the VM in your hypervisor. See http://sites.psu.edusacomptest/faqs/compfaq/setting-up-the-virtual-machine-and-getting-started-with-the-virtual-machine/Links to an external site.

Once the VM is installed, fire it up and log in. The password is "HaveFun2017"

You can now use the following instructions for help:http://sites.psu.edusacomptest/faqs/compfaq/introduction-to-the-linux-and-terminal-environment/ (Links to an external site.

Complete Activity 1. Make sure that you turn OFF ASLR per the instructions.

Additional Reference on Buffer Overflows (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Document with Additional Help on this Activity

Submit the screenshot of your successful overflow of the buffer and the output of "Welcome to Overflow." Describe what you did that was successful and unsuccessful to do this exercise. After successfully overflowing the buffer, try doing it turn ASLR back on and see what happens to the address of the array.

Report your findings with good screenshots. Label your screenshots as yours by putting your username into the command line somewhere.