Questions tagged [dll-injection]
DLL Injection is a method of code injection in a Microsoft Windows environment.
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How to call your version of the existing function using proxy dll?
I have bits of code which decompiles a small part of the existing program. I have added it to the proxy dll. The code to the existing functions is hooked through Detour and looks like below (gui.h and ...
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Red Alert 2 Windows 8 DirectDraw compatibility
The game Red Alert 2 runs on Windows 8, but as soon as I inject a DLL (via ddraw.dll or an extra DLL) it stops drawing buttons on the main menu. With the DLL it still work fine in windowed mode and it ...
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Proxy dll doesn't load the original dll
I have relatively simple code here for the proxy DllMain() function:
BOOL APIENTRY DllMain(HMODULE hDll, DWORD reason, LPVOID reserved)
{
if (reason != DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH) {
return TRUE;
}
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Can't find injected DLL in OllyDbg
I am trying to learn about injecting a DLL into a process and I wanted to simply execute a code which injects an already built DLL so that I could then check with OllyDbg if it worked.
I am using the ...
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How to modify a function without disassembling the entire class
If I want to modify a function which has calls to other classes and functions in the application, but I don't want to reverse all of those other classes and leave them as they are, how do I go about ...
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Modify main function for C++ game file
I am trying to modify the main function for a specific decompiled .exe. More specifically, I want to remove the reference to GUI from that .exe file, so that GUI doesn't get initialised on the startup ...
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Finding lua C functions compiled binary
So i am trying to "hack" a game however not for cheating purposes. I am looking to extend the games scripting functionality through a DLL that can look for processes and return them. The game I am ...
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How can I view the output of printf calls without a console window?
I'm using IDA to poke around in an old video game and noticed there are lots of calls to the printf function:
I can see in another function that dword_5CE914 is a bitmask comprising various startup ...
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Modifying program using IDA/Hexrays decompilation pseudocode
A bit long-winded, apologies in advance. Updates to the question are at the end.
I'm experimenting with hooking functions in a program & modifying them based on the decompilation pseudocode from ...
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Process close when try attach some debugger
I'm begin with reverse engineering, because I want to create some new functions to the "game server". That is, I want to inject(hook dll) in this game. **The source code of project not is ...
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c# - Eject Injected Dll From Proc. Then Re-Inject Capability
I made a simple c# application to inject .dll to given process. But I also want to have a capability to eject then depending on user's choice, can re-inject the same .dll to same process. I'm working ...
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Why does reflective dll injection need to perform loading in the target process?
I'm not sure i understand reflective loading.
An injector process allocates memory in the target, writes a stub and the dll binary to be loaded, and the stub calls ReflectiveLoad in that binary. ...
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Injecting code into an ELF binary , got Segmentation fault(SIGSEGV)
I am currently working on an ELF-injector and my approach is standard: find code cave (long enough sequence of 0's), rewrite it with the instructions I want to execute and then jump back to the start ...
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Call libc functions from the payload statically injected into ELF binary
I am working on ELF-injector, which given some payload (currently it's an assembly file with .text section only) will inject it into ELF binary. I had related post here.
Now I would like to make it ...
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Error 0xc00007b while trying to do DLL Proxying
I have been trying to do DLL Proxy to load my code on a target process. The dll I'm building is just the sample template that comes with Visual Studio.
I've just added the function exports and a ...
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Are offsets within a loaded dll always the same relative to each other?
If I load a dll in 2 different processes, will the offsets calculations within one process hold for the other process?
I'm currently trying to patch the import table of a dll, once injected into a ...
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Easy way to attach a DLL to a Game
I like to attach a dll to a game to add more features.
The DLL is 95% done, the problem is find the best and easy way to load this dll from the Game.
My idea is use this technique:
dinput_ori.dll (...
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A way to detect a anti-cheating system
I have created a DLL for DLL inject injection to add a force feedback to a GOG game. The DLL Work perfectly. I have tried to see how work the Debug in CE with this script:
debugProcess() -- Attach ...
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Crash after hook a function
I have hooked a sound function that work within the game menu after, when the battle start, the game will crash.
The function at the first parameter get correctly the sound file name, before the ...
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best approach to hook function
I have found 2 source code example to hook a function.
Example1:
#include "detours.h"
#include "sigscan.h"
// this is the function that the program
// will jump to when sum() is ...
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DLL injection (Failed to inject)
I have found this complete and easy example to test the function hook:
https://github.com/Zer0Mem0ry/Detour
#include <Windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include "detours.h"
#...
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dll injection (assembly code)
I need some tip to undrestand what is the best way to execute external code from DLL or command line.
I like to add the force feedback support to different games that not support it.
I can write a DLL ...
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learning detour and code injection
i am looking to expand my knowledge so i can someday(hopefully within few months) be able to join the reverse engineering community, probably in the anti-virus/defense field.
i was wondering, since ...
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what are modern hooking techniques? [closed]
i was looking at interesting anti malware roles (malware analysis and prevention) and among the required skills they mentioned that "modern hooking techniques" should be well acquainted with. i was ...
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How to decompile "call eax" in IDA Pro?
I know that there is a similar question but the answers didn't provide any fix for that problem.
I am decompiling a .dll file, and I have found out the subroutine that I needed, but it's throwing a "...
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Loading a PE32 executable DLL Intel 80386 into a c# program
I'm new here so I'm sorry if this isn't the right section for my question.
I'm reverse engineering a software that's written in .net 3.5 c# which loads a weird dynamic dll, which has an important ...
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advapi32.dll changes name of function during forwarding of exports
Im trying myself at writing a manual mapper, for injection of DLLs into other processes.
Ive come to the point, where I've written a simple "Hello World" dll, that im trying to inject into another ...
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Get string from function and pass it to another program
I want to make a small tool that analyzes text from console in online game and I'm stuck at reading a string from a function and sending it to another program. I managed to find function that takes ...
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Hiding a file in a Windows operating system
I am trying to understand how to hide a file in windows as a way to learn about win api and malware analysis.
What I am trying to do is to make a file "disappear" via some kind of manipulation. But I ...
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DLL Injection Call Address In Target
I have an address that is located in a dll loaded by my target process. I would like to call this address using dll injection.
For now my dll looks like this:
BOOL APIENTRY DllMain(HMODULE hModule, ...
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Dll injection and GetProcAddress with the winapi
So i just read a little bit about how one would go about for injecting a dll into a running program on Wikipedia (the CreateRemoteThread idea). I followed the steps described and eventually got it ...
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Function Hooking via Dll Injection Negative Offset
I have some code that hooks a function via dll injection. The code works fine but i'm a little perplexed as to how it works. The code needs to calculate the offset from the function that i'm going to ...
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Writing a DLL in C# vs C++? [closed]
I am trying to make a client-sided anticheat which would work similar to BattlEye or GameGuard. In order to do this, I want to create a DLL which would do the cheat verification, which then I would ...
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injecting through APC using LdrLoadDll fails on `CiValidateImageHeader`
I've encountered an image validation error while trying to inject dll from
driver which add apc task to be performed by alertable thread. the function task include calling to LdrLoadDll with the ...
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Microsoft Edge and it's related processes may have turned protected in windows 10 1903
It seems like driver based injection using APC calls fails on MicrosoftEdge and it's related processes (browser_broker.exe , MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe and MicrosoftEdge.exe).
Looking into the problem, it ...
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Is it possible to hijack a C++ DLL after it has been loaded into the memory space? How?
I have a .Net application, in which a C++ DLL is embedded as a resource into the application.
When the .Net application is running, I will extract the C++ DLL to a temporary folder, and after that, ...
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Permanently load a DLL to an executable
With the help of IDA I was able to hard-code changes into an executable by simply replacing some bytes with a hex editor, what I did was to change the resolution to something larger.
I've learnt that ...
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Detouring with Unreal Engine 4, importing exe functions
I'm not sure that this is the right SO community to be asking this in, but I thought I'd give it a try. Some friends and I have successfully detoured a game built with UE4 by loading a modified ...
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What is DLL Injection and how is it used for reversing?
I was reading a discussion about dumping a processes part of a process's memory and someone suggested using DLL injection to do this. I'll be honest in that I don't really understand. How does DLL ...
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Calling internal functions via dll injection - runtime error
I am trying to modify closed source game client that works with my game server. The purpose of that is being able to add new graphical elements into the client.
I have read a lot of tutorials about ...
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How can DLL injection be detected?
In this question on DLL injection multiple answers mention that DLL injection can be used to modify games, perhaps for the purposes of writing a bot. It seems desirable to be able to detect DLL ...
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DLL Injection does not work twice
I created a program that performs DLL injection. It does that by opening the process with OpenProcess, writes the DLL path to the process and creates a remote thread with CreateRemoteThread with the ...
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In Memory DLL Injection
I am currently working on learning how different types of DLL injection can be performed. Right now I am able to run a function by:
Opening the remote process;
Allocating memory in remote process;
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It's possible call a function outside a original thread?
Example:
I have a function in a process on the memory address: 0xABCDEF, but that function cannot be called outside of original thread, it's possible to call it or hook it somehow?
To what i'm going ...
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Hacking Lua - Introduce new functions into built Lua
I am trying to hack a game (not for cheating though) by introducing new built-in methods and functions in order to communicate with the game using sockets. Here is a small "pseudo code" example of ...
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Unable to call function with CreateRemoteThread
I am messing around with some dll injection/code injection. Therefore I made a little program which does nothing, but it has a function in it, which never get called and I wrote another program which ...
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Simulate Windows menu item activation
I am trying to shortcut the call to a procedure that is activated when clicking on a menu item.
I injected a DLL on the process that creates this window with the menu bar.
I used Spy++ from ...
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What is the quickest way to run code of my own DLL?
Not sure if the title is that telling but what I want to do is hack into an executable and do as little as necessary to get the code from my DLL running since I want to write as few lines of assembly ...
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Possible to hook an address and directly write to it?
I am reversing a game for fun and currently use this function to manipulate the Y coordinate:
void __declspec(naked) hookYCoordASM() {
__asm {
mov eax, valueY
mov [esi + 0x7C], ...
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Reverse Engineering Exported DLL Function
I am trying to read the arguments sent to an external dll file "FlashToolLib.dll". My hook function is never triggered, I am guessing because I have the address wrong. I have tried the address in ...