Obtained OSED - Windows User Mode Exploit Development

March 10, 2026

OSED (Windows User Mode Exploit Development) obtained!

This was the last in the trilogy of Offensive Security certifications that follow after the OSCP and focuses entirely on Windows exploit development.

During this course, the following topics were covered:

  • Stack buffer overflows
  • Exploiting SEH overflows
  • Reverse engineering with IDA
  • Writing Windows shellcode by hand
  • Bypassing DEP & ASLR
  • Building ROP chains
  • Developing ROP payload decoders
OSED