VR Analysis & Discovery
Automated vulnerability discovery - emulation, symbolic execution, dynamic analysis, fuzzing, and real-world case studies.
Recommended Prerequisites
These are recommendations - you can start this track at any time.
About this track
Automated vulnerability discovery - emulation, symbolic execution, dynamic analysis, fuzzing, and real-world case studies.
The VR Analysis & Discovery track collects 4 modules and 16 lessons into a single ordered path. Each module ends with a checkpoint quiz; passing the checkpoint unlocks the next module so you can track your progress without guessing whether the material has stuck.
You start with "Emulation & Symbolic Execution" and finish on "Vulnerability Discovery Case Studies". The whole track sits inside the Vulnerability Research area of the curriculum, so the writing assumes the prerequisites listed above and skips ground that an earlier track has already covered.
What this track covers
- Emulation & Symbolic Execution — Use CPU emulation to run code in controlled environments, and symbolic execution to automatically explore program paths and discover vulnerabilities.
- Dynamic Analysis & Debugging for VR — Master dynamic analysis techniques for vulnerability research - from advanced GDB and WinDbg debugging to dynamic taint tracking, execution tracing, and systematic crash analysis.
- Advanced Fuzzing Techniques — Go deep into modern fuzzing - from AFL++ internals and coverage-guided mutation to structure-aware fuzzing, kernel fuzzing with syzkaller, and writing effective fuzz harnesses.
- Vulnerability Discovery Case Studies — Apply everything you have learned through detailed case studies - finding memory corruption in parsers, discovering logic bugs, exploiting parser weaknesses, and developing proof-of-concept exploits.
How the track works
Every lesson is a short page with diagrams, runnable examples, and the kind of edge-case footnotes you usually only find in textbooks. Where it makes sense, the lesson is paired with a CPU simulation or a coding challenge so you can poke at the idea instead of just reading about it.
The lessons themselves are free to read with a free account. The 4 checkpoint quizzes that gate the next module are also free, as are the lesson IDE and CPU simulations. Optional 777-tier tools — the step-through debugger, decompiler, ROP gadget builder, heap visualiser, and exploit labs — sit alongside the lessons but are not required to follow the track from start to finish.
You can jump in at any point. Be Bitwise is built around a free forever curriculum, with no time limits and no expiring access. Pick the next lesson when you have an hour; come back when you do not.