Awesome Hyper-V Exploitation [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
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A curated list of Hyper-V exploitation resources, fuzzing and vulnerability research.
If you want to contribute, please read the guide.
For a broader list of virtualization related links, see Awesome Virtualization.
Table of Contents
Conference Talks & Slides
Conference talks/slides related to vulnerabilities and exploits in Hyper-V
- Hypervisor Vulnerability Research: State of the Art - by Alisa Esage, Zer0Con [2020]
- Attacking Hyper-V - by Jaanus Kääp, POC [2019]
- Exploiting the Hyper-V IDE Emulator to Escape the Virtual Machine - by Joe Bialek, BlackHat USA [2019]
- Growing Hypervisor 0day with Hyperseed - by Daniel King & Shawn Denbow, OffensiveCon [2019]
- Hardening Hyper-V Through Offensive Security Research - by Jordan Rabet, BlueHat [2018]
- A Dive in to Hyper-V Architecture & Vulnerabilities - by Joe Bialek & Nicolas Joly, TenSec [2018]
- VBS and VSM Internals - by Saar Amar, BlueHat IL [2018]
- The Hyper-V Architecture and its Memory Manager - by Andrea Allievi, REcon [2017]
- Ring 0 to Ring -1 Attacks - Hyper-V IPC Internals - by Alex Ionescu, SyScan [2015]
Blog Posts
Security research blog posts for learning how to find vulnerabilities/exploit Hyper-V
- First Steps in Hyper-V Research - by Saar Amar, MSRC Blog [2018]
- Fuzzing para-virtualized devices in Hyper-V - by Secure Windows Initiative Attack Team, MSRC Blog [2019]
- Attacking the VM Worker Process - by Saar Amar, MSRC Blog [2019]
- Ventures into Hyper-V - Fuzzing hypercalls - by Amardeep Chana, MWR Labs [2019]
- Writing a Hyper-V "Bridge" for Fuzzing -- Part 1: WDF - by Alex Ionescu [2019]
- Writing a Hyper-V "Bridge" for Fuzzing -- Part 2: Hypercalls & MDLs - by Alex Ionescu [2019]
References & Resources
Useful Hyper-V research references and resources
- Microsoft Hyper-V Bounty Program - by Microsoft
- Hyper-V symbols for debugging - by Microsoft
- Hyper-V Internals - by Gerhart
- Hyper-V Architecture by Microsoft Docs
- Hyper-V Hypervisor Top-Level Functional Specification - by Microsoft Docs
- Install Hyper-V on Windows 10 - by Microsoft Docs
- Create Virtual Machine with Hyper-V on Windows - by Microsoft Docs
- Run Hyper-V In a Virtual Machine with Nested Virtualization - by Microsoft Docs
Security Research Tools
Tools for doing security research and introspection on Hyper-V
- hdk -- (unofficial) Hyper-V Development Kit - by Alex Ionescu
- Viridian Fuzzer -- Kernel driver to fuzz Hyper-V hypercalls - by Amardeep Chana, MWR Labs
- LiveCloudKd - by Matt Suiche, Comae Technologies
- HyperViper -- Toolkit for Hyper-V security research - by Jaanus Kääp, Clarified Security