x86 Talks

Tutorials

Bluff your way in x64 assembler
- ACCU 2017; Roger Orr
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI7VL-g6J7g
Deeper Dive: x86 32/64 Assembly
- University of Cincinnati Malware Analysis Class (CS7038): Wk06 (2017)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiC0TnYtXXU
- http://class.malware.re/2017/02/14/asm-crash-course-2.html
Enough x86 Assembly to Be Dangerous
- CppCon 2017; Charles Bailey
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfUPkUAEwrk
Intro to x86 Assembly Language - Davy Wybiral
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmxT2pVYo5LB5EzTPZGfFN0c2GDiSXgQe
- https://github.com/code-tutorials/assembly-intro
Introduction to x86 Assembly
- Derbycon 2018; DazzleCatDuo (Christopher Domas & Stephanie Domas)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea6yt3SP3y4
- http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon8/mainlist
Intro to Reverse Engineering and Debugging with Radare2
Just enough Assembly for Compiler Explorer - Anders Schau Knatten
- NDC TechTown 2019
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soeFwz0cOqU
Linux x64 Assembly
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKK11Ligqiti8g3gWRtMjMgf1KoKDOvME
Modern x64 Assembly
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKK11Ligqitg9MOX3-0tFT1Rmh3uJp7kA
- http://web.archive.org/web/20170110154539/http://www.whatsacreel.net76.net/asmtutes.html
Practical x64 Assembly and C++ Tutorials
- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C5C980A28FEE68D
- Slides: http://www.whatsacreel.net76.net/asmtutes.html
x64 Assembly Multithreading
- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKK11LigqithTIZFLTXu7jUB2IvErM_nH
x86_64 Linux Assembly
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLetF-YjXm-sCH6FrTz4AQhfH6INDQvQSn
x86-64 Lite for Compiler Writers
- Hal Perkins
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmbBIYdjN2E
- Slides: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep501/16wi/calendar/lecturelist.html

2019

x86 register-to-register move instructions & short history of the most popular CPU architecture

2018

Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs
- Black Hat 2018; Christopher Domas
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSAF_qT_FY
- https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
Inside the AMD Microcode ROM

2017

Assembly Language is Too High Level
- DEF CON 25; XlogicX
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eunYrrcxXfw
- https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20presentations/DEFCON-25-XlogicX-Assembly-Language-Is-Too-High-Level.pdf
- Interactive Redundant Assembler (shell)
  - https://github.com/XlogicX/irasm
Breaking the x86 Instruction Set
- Christopher Domas
- sandsifter
  - https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter
  - sandsifter-tests: A repository of result for runs of sandsifter on various x86 CPU's
    - https://github.com/rigred/sandsifter-tests
- Black Hat 2017
- DEF CON 25
Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper
Everything you want to know about x86 microcode, but might have been afraid to ask
- 34C3 (2017); Benjamin Kollenda and Philipp Koppe
- An introduction into reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it yourself
- https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9058-everything_you_want_to_know_about_x86_microcode_but_might_have_been_afraid_to_ask
- https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/events/9058.html
POP POP RETN ; An Introduction to Writing Win32 Shellcode
- Derbycon 2017; Christopher Maddalena
- http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon7/t313-pop-pop-retn-an-introduction-to-writing-win32-shellcode-christopher-maddalena
reductio [ad absurdum]
- Shakacon 2017; Christopher Domas
- https://www.slideshare.net/Shakacon/reductio-ad-absurdum-78575394
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWwRmvjAE8
- An exploration of code homeomorphism: all programs can be reduced to the same instruction stream.
  - https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/reductio
Reverse Engineering x86 Processor Microcode
- USENIX Security '17
- Philipp Koppe, Benjamin Kollenda, Marc Fyrbiak, Christian Kison, Robert Gawlik, Christof Paar, and Thorsten Holz
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/koppe
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6dQfnb3y0I
- https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode
- Slides: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/usenixsecurity17_slides_koppe.pdf
- PDF: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-koppe.pdf
- European Coreboot Conference (ECC) 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-NFcC8yOXo

2016

An In-Depth Analysis of Disassembly on Full-Scale x86/x64 Binaries
- USENIX Security 2016
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical-sessions/presentation/andriesse
- https://www.vusec.net/projects/disassembly/
Causes of Performance Instability due to Code Placement in X86
- 2016 LLVM Developers’ Meeting; Zia Ansari
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX16gcX4vDQ
- http://llvm.org/devmtg/2016-11/Slides/Ansari-Code-Alignment.pdf
Debugging Optimized x64 Code
- 2016; Jorge L. Rodríguez
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUNRvqpske0
Improving LLVM Generated Code Size for X86 Processors
- 2016 EuroLLVM Developers' Meeting; Zia Ansari & David Kreitzer
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHexQSFud3w
- http://llvm.org/devmtg/2016-03/Presentations/X86CodeSizePDF.pdf
Movfuscator Be Gone
- REcon 2016
- Julian Kirsch, Clemens Jonischkeit
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_R8i0dVBsQ
- https://github.com/kirschju/demovfuscator
- https://recon.cx/2016/talks/%22Movfuscator-Be-Gone.html
- https://infocon.org/cons/REcon/REcon%202016/video/recon2016-20-julian-kirsch-clemens-jonischkeit-Movfuscator-Be-Gone.mp4
Programming an x64 compiler from scratch
- 2016; Per Vognsen
- part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9B2KeAWXgE
- part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx29YQ4zAuM
- part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olSZ0d-nksE

2015

Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
- DEF CON 23 (2015); Chris Domas
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUe0TUHOIc
- https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/REpsych
The Memory Sinkhole - Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Escalation
- Black Hat 2015
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR0nh-TdpVg
The M/o/Vfuscator - Turning 'mov' into a soul-crushing RE nightmare
- Derbycon 2015; Christopher Domas
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk
- http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon5/break-me00-the-movfuscator-turning-mov-into-a-soul-crushing-re-nightmare-christopher-domas
- REcon 2015
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VF_wPkiBJY
When hardware must „just work“ - An inside look at x86 CPU design

2014

x86 instruction encoding and the nasty hacks we do in the kernel
- SUSE Labs Conference 2014; Borislav Petkov
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUAXCeRjw3c
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/ennael/kr2014-x86instructions
x86 Internals for Fun and Profit
- GOTO 2014; Matt Godbolt
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgcNM-6wr34
- Slides: http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-chicago-2014/slides/MattGodbolt_X86InternalsForFunAndProfit.pdf

2013

Beyond MOV ADD XOR -- the unusual and unexpected in x86
- 2013; Gynvael Coldwind, Mateusz "j00ru" Jurczyk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WufyCW3j3DE
Page Fault Liberation Army or Gained in Translation: a history of creative x86 virtual memory uses
- 2013 - #HITB2013AMS D1T1; Sergey Bratus, Julian Bangert
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqj3xCATeqQ
- http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2013ams/materials/D1T1%20-%20Sergey%20Bratus%20and%20Julian%20Bangert%20-%20Better%20Security%20Through%20Creative%20x86%20Trapping.pdf
The Page-Fault Weird Machine: Lessons in Instruction-less Computation
- USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT) 2013
- Julian Bangert, Sergey Bratus, Rebecca Shapiro, Sean W. Smith, Dartmouth College
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFGwZA_4URg

2012

Page Fault Liberation Army or Gained in Translation a history of creative x86 virtual memory uses
- 29c3 (2012)
- https://media.ccc.de/v/29c3-5265-en-page_fault_liberation_army_h264

2011

Such a weird processor - messing with x86 opcodes (and a little bit of PE...)
- #days 2011; Ange Albertini
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJvsshovITE
- https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/hashdays2011
- x86 & PE: https://speakerdeck.com/ange/x86-and-pe
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/ange4771/such-a-weird-processor-messing-with-opcodes-and-a-little-bit-of-pe

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x86 Talks

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