>but should I also be able to develop full programs in C?That's a vague question, here's a full program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello, world\n");
return 0;
}
On the other hand, often C programs depend on algorithms and such, which are probably out of the scope of binary exploitation. So you probably don't need to be able to write a text editor to be able to exploit a C program.
But I do think you should learn C to some level, that way, as
>>205 said, you can experiment writing-compiling-disassembling and also using a RE tool (IDA Pro or whatever) to get used to exploring the inner structure of a C program.
However, there are many things unrelated to the implementation language that are also important, like the layout of a binary file in memory, the environment variables it inherits, and so on. Where I'm going is, since C was developed for Unix, it has many Unix-ism which I wouldn't know how they map in windows (file descriptors for example), so besides a basic understanding of C, you should probably focus on how Windows deals with it.
