Apologies if I misunderstood the comment and you already know what a shellcode is and just thought it should've been included A shellcode is a (as much as poss

Apologies if I misunderstood the comment and you already know what a shellcode is and just thought it should've been included A shellcode is a (as much as possible) self contained series of instructions which, if executed in a program (because of vulnerabilities which allow an attacker to inject code and have the program execute it) gives the attacker a platform from which to further escalate control of the machine It's called like that because it often tries to spawn a shell for the attacker to use Here you can find some examples: http://shell-storm.org/shellcode/ http://shell-storm.org/shellcode/