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Windows APT Warfare

You're reading from Windows APT Warfare

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804618110

Pages 258 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Sheng-Hao Ma

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Modern Windows Compiler

2. Chapter 1: From Source to Binaries – The Journey of a C Program

3. Chapter 2: Process Memory – File Mapping, PE Parser, tinyLinker, and Hollowing

4. Chapter 3: Dynamic API Calling – Thread, Process, and Environment Information

5. Part 2 – Windows Process Internals

6. Chapter 4: Shellcode Technique – Exported Function Parsing

7. Chapter 5: Application Loader Design

8. Chapter 6: PE Module Relocation

9. Part 3 – Abuse System Design and Red Team Tips

10. Chapter 7: PE to Shellcode – Transforming PE Files into Shellcode

11. Chapter 8: Software Packer Design

12. Chapter 9: Digital Signature – Authenticode Verification

13. Chapter 10: Reversing User Account Control and Bypassing Tricks

14. Index

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15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix – NTFS, Paths, and Symbols

Win32 and NT path specification

Import API analyzer example

The following example is the iat_parser.cpp source code under the Chapter#5 folder of the GitHub project. In order to save space, this book only extracts the highlighted code. Please refer to the complete source code to read the full project.

Let’s try writing tools to analyze which system functions are imported into EXE programs. Figure 5.4 shows the entry function of iat_parser.cpp:

Figure 5.4 – The main function of iat_parser.cpp

Figure 5.4 – The main function of iat_parser.cpp

At lines 44-50 of the code, we first read the entire program into memory by fopen, and get the size of the global IAT and its RVA from the 13th item (i.e., IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_IAT) in DataDirectory. Since each field in the global IAT is the correct system function address that is referenced in the .text section, and will point to the RVA of the system function name storage structure (IMAGE_IMPORT_BY_NAME) on the INT, each field is therefore an IMAGE_THUNK_DATA variable. We simply...

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Authors (1)

Sheng-Hao Ma

Sheng-Hao Ma is currently working as a threat researcher at TXOne Networks, specializing in Windows reverse engineering analysis for over 10 years. In addition, he is currently a member of CHROOT, an information security community in Taiwan. He has served as a speaker and instructor for various international conferences and organizations such as Black Hat USA, DEFCON, CODE BLUE, HITB, VXCON, HITCON, ROOTCON, Ministry of National Defense, and Ministry of Education.

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