Cyber Grand Shellphish
http://phrack.org/papers/cyber_grand_shellphish.html [phrack.org]
2017-01-30 01:35
The DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) was designed as a Capture The Flag (CTF) competition among autonomous systems without any humans being involved. During the competition, Cyber Reasoning Systems (CRSs) would find vulnerabilities in binaries, exploit them, and generate patches to protect them from attacks, without any human involvement at all.
The rest of this article describes the design of our system, how it performed, and the many lessons learned in designing, implementing, and deploying Mechanical Phish.
Tons of things going on here.