C - Common source code for testing shellcode

[Resheph]

This is one of many examples of a C code skeleton for shellcode testing.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>

unsigned char code[] = \
"<shellcode goes here>";

void main()
        {
        int (*ret)() = (int(*)())code;
        ret();
        }

It should be compiled with something like this if you need an executable stack:

gcc -fno-stack-protector -z execstack shellcode.c -o shellcode

Note that I did not make it. The author is unknown.