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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In hacking, a shellcode is a small piece of code used as the payload in the exploitation of a software vulnerability.
by hknapp 6y ago
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In hacking, a shellcode is a small piece of code used as the payload in the exploitation of a software vulnerability.
- whynotminot 6y agoTo add more, it gets its name "shell code" from the fact that a lot of the time, the point of the exploit is to launch a system shell that the attacker can control.