CAUTION: I have realised, that this script gives wrong results after a certain length of characters. It’s not recommended for use. The intention for this script was for me to learn some coding – which I have. But I haven’ got the time at the moment to fix the errors. Hopefully, sometime in the future, I’ll be able to re-write the code. You can use corelanc0d3r’s pvefindaddr.py, which is an excellent script for Immunity Debugger.
Update: Thanks to corelanc0d3r for pointing out that my script does not generate an output same as the metasploit and pvefindaddr scripts. This is useful, as pointed by him, to anyone wishing to mix the outputs/offsets between the tools. I have made relevant changes to the code and also fixed another bug which prevented all offsets from being calculated.
While developing exploits, at times you require a unique string for which any 4 consecutive characters selected at an instance are unique across the string(or may be repeated only after a large gap of characters). This is mostly used to find the ‘offset’ of the characters which have over-written the EIP register.
Metasploit (version 3.0+) has a tool for both:
1) to generate the string pattern (tools/pattern_create.rb)
2) to find the offset of the required pattern (tools/pattern_offset.rb)
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