From Day Zero to Zero Day A Hands on Guide to Vulnerability Research

From day zero to zero day a hands on guide to vulnerability research: In this hands-on guide, award-winning white-hat hacker Eugene “Spaceraccoon” Lim breaks down the real-world process of vulnerability discovery. You’ll retrace the steps behind past CVEs, analyze open source and embedded targets, and build a repeatable workflow for uncovering critical flaws in code.

Whether you’re new to vulnerability research or sharpening an existing skill set, this book will show you how to think—and work—like a bug hunter.

You’ll learn how to:

• Identify promising targets across codebases, protocols, and file formats.
• Trace code paths with taint analysis and map attack surfaces with precision.
• Reverse engineer binaries using Ghidra, Frida, and angr.
• Apply coverage-guided fuzzing, symbolic execution, and variant analysis.
• Build and validate proof-of-concept exploits to demonstrate real-world impact.

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