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I have got a custom.dll which is utilized in a larger application. The application executable imports this dll to use its functionality. But this functionality is not used through out the life cycle of the application but only when a specific event occurs. for instance when I input something in the application console a new thread would be created and some of the functionality of the given dll would be used. Now the problem is I am unable to find out what is exactly going on in the dll without having that application executable. I only have the dll file. I want to reverse it. Just like debugging an exe file and go through the registers step by step to find out what is what and why something happens, simply perform a dynamic analysis on the dll instead of the static one.

To be more specific, the dll file creates a specific string, I want to know how that string is created and where it is stored for console usage.

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You can use OllyDbg's loaddll.exe to load a DLL and call (and debug) its functions:

loaddll

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  • How should I know functions arguments without even having them reversed?
    – FreeMind
    Aug 28, 2015 at 21:03
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    You'd probably want to reverse engineer them with IDA Pro to find out how many arguments they take, what the argument types are, etc. Aug 28, 2015 at 21:06

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