At least for the first stage you don't actually need to run the executable (under gdb or otherwise). You can just get the string with objdump: $ objdump -s --start-address 0x402400 bomb|head bomb: file format elf64-x86-64 Contents of section .rodata: 402400 426f7264 65722072 656c6174 696f6e73 Border relations 402410 20776974 68204361 6e616461 20686176 with Canada hav 402420 65206e65 76657220 6265656e 20626574 e never…
Cool, thanks for sharing.