Questions tagged [windbg]
A graphical stand-alone multipurpose debugger for Microsoft Windows, distributed on the web by Microsoft.
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Remote debugging using IDA, connecting to windbg server (kernel mode)
I do kernel debugging by using a virtual com port. One machine (host) is debugging the other machine. I have a remote machine that has IDA, and I wish to connect to the debugging session in the host ...
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Predicting Memory locations of arguments within a function
I'm trying to write a script that would help display the memory contents of the arguments passed within a function. For example, in the function below, the first argument starts at the EAX register. ...
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What does -c mean in this Windbg Command Syntax?
kd> u win32k!impPsIsThreadTerminating+0xe4-c L5
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/ \ \ \ \ \
/ \ \ \ \ \
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x64dbg (x32dbg) log registers every step like windbg
So I just switched to x64dbg (really using x32 atm) from windbg and so far I like it but the one thing I'm missing is windbg printing all the registers every step in the command window. Anyone know ...
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Setting a conditional kernel breakpoint in WinDbg grinds the debuggee OS to a halt
My setup:
Debugger: Win10 Pro, WinDbg Preview v.1.0.1904.18001
Debuggee: Win7 Pro (running in a VM using VMWare Workstation)
I'm trying to follow the SendMessage call from the user space:
Into the ...
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How to configure IDA to load .pdb files from Microsoft public symbol server?
I've done this in one VM but I can't seem to replicate it in another. I'm using IDA to analyze a 32-bit Windows PE file. I then want to step thru it with a WinDbg debugger from within IDA.
So when I ...
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How to call WinApi from a breakpoint in IDA Pro?
When I'm stepping through a debuggee process with IDA+WinDbg (as a debugger), I need to track one parameter by executing the following API (from within the breakpoint):
//C++ code
SCROLLINFO s;
s....
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Analyzing Windows kernel driver
I'm trying to analyze some Windows kernel driver. What I want to achieve is full execution trace, from driver entry to end point. Driver is heavily virtualized and contains multiple anti-debugging ...
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WinDbg does not shows all first chance exceptions
I have an application, which sometimes fails. I run procdump and see some first chance exceptions like this:
[14:29:38] Exception: E06D7363.?AVCServicesMDException@@
[14:29:38] Exception: E06D7363.?...
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Forwarding Debug messages to winDbg from specific processes
The command ed nt!Kd_Default_Mask 8 in winDbg will get all printouts that generate from OutputDebugStringW from remote machine to the console
But In my scenario there are significantly large number ...
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windbg - Why does the GS register resolve to offset 0x0?
I'm trying to understand how to resolve segment addressing (specifically the GS register in X64).
My toy program:
int main()
{
unsigned long long x;
__debugbreak();
x = __readgsqword(...
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windbg - What does the “Commit” column of the !vad command output mean?
[cross-posted (but closed the original) from https://stackoverflow.com/q/55438678/254959]
As above, when I do a !vad in windbg, what do the values in under the Commit column mean?
kd> !vad
VAD ...
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windbg - What is the relation between the VAD (!vad), the PTEs (!pte), and loaded modules and sections (lm and !dh)?
[cross-posted (but closed the original) from https://stackoverflow.com/q/55438806/254959]
I'm trying to gain a better understanding on Windows process memory, and have some gaps with regards to the ...
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Detecting protected processes and critical processes from windows driver
I've got a driver that tamper user-space processes by sending APC calls upon process start using the call PsSetCreateProcessNotifyRoutine.
I wish to avoid tampering with any process that is critical ...
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How to use windbg to view assembly code of kernel function?
I am using windbg for local kernel debugging. I want to view the disassembly of a kernel function (eg. AuxKlibQueryModuleInformation). I am not familiar with kernel debugging. Please help me do this.
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Debugger Win32 Local vs WinDbg in Ida vs Ollydbg
When I do dynamic analyze of exe file I have few option , and I want to know what are the advantages and disadvantages.
I know that Ida designated for static analyze , but there are some debugger in ...
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Why IDA can't find the function named by windbg
This is definitely a beginner question,I'm doing static and dynamic analysis on certain dll file and the WinDbg give me call stack like
SERVER+0x78123
When I return back to IDA to see the code ...
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Windbg Break Points
I need to set a break point when a specific module address space is being overwritten? I need to specify this by module name not address space
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Windbg's “dt” equivalent in IDA?
I wanted to ask whether there is a simple way to see an object's structure (like windbg's "dt" command equivalent)?
Assuming of course I have the pdb file.
Thank you :)
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Are some special chars(<>) in function names not supported by windbg/cdb?
I have a function in a binary like this class<class1::class2>::function. I can't directly use commands like bp, u, x on the function. The only option I have right now is x class* and then look ...
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How to breakpoint atached process with ida when move on
In IDA pro, there is an option to attach to a process using the WinDbg backend.
When I want is to see the process' control flow when the IDA attaches to it.
The only way (that I know) to see the ...
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Ignore some locations in Windbg Conditional breakpoints
I'm trying to set a conditional hardware breakpoint on Windows Kernel-Mode in Windbg by using the following syntax :
ba w1 ffff802312345678 "j(@rip==ffff802387654321 || @rip==ffff802387654330) 'gc';''...
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What is the difference between Windbg and local debugger in IDA
When I want to debug an .exe on Windows with IDA I can choose between Windbg or local debugger.
What is the difference?
By the way, is there any difference if I use Windbg tool (windows software) ...
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Question about the limit and base address in x86-64 segmentation model?
I'm trying to understand how segmentation works under x86-64. From what I see, it's mostly disabled, but not entirely. It looks like GS and FS registers are still using it.
So I was reviewing the ...
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Can I set more than 4 memory access breakpoints in WinDbg?
I can set a DWORD memory read/write access breakpoint in WinDbg with the following command:
ba r 4 0x0307F42C
But is there a way to set more than 4 of those?
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Windows 10 v.1803 boot failure after trying to install network kernel debugging with WinDbg Preview
I'm trying to set up kernel debugging on a physical hardware/desktop to test the new WinDbg Preview. Here's the steps:
I'm using a desktop with Intel DG41TY board.
Installed Windows 10 Pro build 1803....
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Prevent windbg from context switching when stepping into assembly instructions
When I'm using Windbg (in kernel mode) to step into assembly, I would encounter context switching once in a while - which is annoying.
So, for example, I placed a breakpoint for a process - let's ...
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WinDbg: Setting a breakpoint on every EXPORTED function of a module
Kinda new to WinDbg. I got an executable who loads a module later in the execution path, so at start I'm doing sxe ld:moduleName to break when the process loads the module.
Then I tried to just put a ...
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Windbg: How to directly view GS:[0x60]
Win10x64: In Windbg, how may I view a pointer to the PEB by directly using GS:[0x60] (and not by Windbg extensions)?
To test, I assembled a program via masm64 that throws an interrupt, clears r8 then ...
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Break on driver loading with windbg
I try to debug a driver used by malware ( without source code of course ), to see what IOCTLS it uses and for what. I have issues breaking on driver loading, it has a proper driver structure, with ...
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Tracing function calls in x64dbg
I'm new with x64dbg and want to know if there is any way to get the trace of a functions inside a module?
I've used trace over option, but basically it just traces all the insturctions but doesn't "...
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How to find the name of the method in Managed Code using Windbg and SOS?
I've got a crash dump, the application definitely crash in JIT optimized assembler code. I know the start address of the method. How do I find its name using using Windbg and SOS extension?
Currently ...
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Is there a command in Windbg which prints MINIDUMP_MISC_INFO_N from the Windows mini dumps?
There's time zone information in windows dumps stored in MINIDUMP_MISC_INFO_N, yet I couldn't find the command which prints this information in windbg. So, I have to extract this information from the ...
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How to set bp in a dll which loads later in pykd?
I am using pykd to debug an application which loads a dll only when some condition is met. How do I set a breakpoint in the dll which has not loaded yet in pykd such that my handler gets the callback? ...
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[windbg]kd - sxe ld <dll> from a process context won't fire
I'm trying to stop at a specific module load from a kernel debugger inside a specific process context.
What i do is to first set sxe ld [process-name] let's say calc.exe.
Now, when I run calc it ...
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Adobe Reader JIT Pages
I use Adobe Reader XI for a little research project.
I know that Adobe use SpiderMonkey as its JS engine.
When opening a .pdf file that contains JS, the JS code is compiled in runtime in parts (JIT)...
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windbg stopped after I set up a breakpoint, keeping busing
I'm studying reverse engineering, I wrote the following code to see how it is to pass struct variables in the disassembly.
struct s {
int a;
int b;
int c;
};
struct s get_some_values(int ...
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Is it possible to use an xref on memory address in IDA Pro?
Say, if I have the following disassembly:
How do I find out where else is that byte at [eax+0xFCA] is referenced? I can't seem to use the IDA's xref command on it, but doing xref on fs:18h gives me ...
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TOKEN structure in Kernel
I would like to know how WinDbg extracts all the user, group, privilege information about a process from a token when given the !token 0xaddress command so I can implement it in my driver code.
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How to step into kernel code from a user-mode code using IDA Pro and WinDbg as a debugger?
I'm using IDA Pro and WinDbg as a debugger to step through a WinAPI from a user-mode code. I can do all this, except that when the assembly code encounters the syscall instruction (that enters ring-0 ...
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How can I receive DbgPrint messages in windbg on windows 10
I have been googling and I feel this answer should be a simple one. I think that the keywords are however, too generic and are bringing up a lot of things related but not what I am looking for.
I am ...
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Resolve Addresses To Function Names
I have a malware sample that wraps LoadLibrary & GetProcAddress duo to dynamically resolve functions. After this wrapper is called the value stored in eax(which is the function name)immediately ...
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Faster Kernel debugging for Windows
I am Kernel debugging in Windbg and it's slow , very slow stepping through.
My current setup is using VMWARE and Windbg through a com port on the Virtual Machine.
Is there a faster way to debug the ...
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Understanding the output of Windbg's `dds esp`
I am not sure if I am understanding the raw output of dds esp or its 64-bit counterpart dqs rsp properly. When I see a list of entries in the stack, I tend to assume that wherever I see return ...
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Debugging a deadlock when the mutex owner thread is dead?
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I'm facing a peculiar deadlock scenario I never saw before.
I'm trying to debug this deadlock from 3 days and couldn't find how to fix it in a proper way. Hopefully someone would help me out.
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Kernel debug - internet explorer in kernelmode?
My setup: Windows 10 with windbg and target machine is Windows 7 N SP1. I'm debugging via com (i know it's slow ;).
So I get the process list with !process, one active process is Internet Explorer:
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Debugging EXE File in Windbg and How to set Breakpoints in Assembly
I am trying to set a breakpoint (created in assembly) and step into an EXE file line by line to watch registers and memory behavior. I have done this easily with gdb under Linux like this.
gdb -q ./...
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Slow kernel dbg with VirtualBox and WinDBG
I am trying to do windows kernel debugging with VirtualBox and WinDBG. But every time I hit a breakpoint the virtual machine CPU usage skyrockets and the CPU registers do not show up in WinDBG. Am I ...
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How can WinDbg be used to troubleshoot program loading?
I have a stubborn PE file which I cannot get to load. The PE headers seem to be intact and the file even parses fine in several PE tools. I am receiving a "Invalid Win32 Application" error when I try ...
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windows kernel debugging on Mac host (using VirtualBox)
I'm running on MacOS Sierra (version 10.12.4). And I created two virtual machine on Virtualbox (version 5.1.22).
1- Host Machine : Windows 10 Pro x64 (I installed Windows Driver kit 10)
2- Target ...
