Introduction Hi guys, Welcome to the 8th part of the Hypervisor From Scratch. If you reach here, then you probably finished reading the 7th part, and personally, I believe the 7th part was the most challenging part to understand so hats off, you did a great job. The 8th part would be an exciting part as we’ll see lots of real-world and practical examples of solving reverse-engineering related problems with hypervisors. For example, we’ll see how hidden hooks work in…
Introduction This is the 7th part of the tutorial Hypervisor From Scratch, and it’s about using the Extended Page Table (EPT) in an already running system. As you might know, paging is an essential part of managing memory on modern operating systems. Hypervisors use an additional paging table; this gives us an excellent opportunity to monitor different aspects of memory (Read-Write-Execute) without modifying the operating systems page-tables. EPT is a hardware mechanism, so it’s fast, but on the other hand,…
Introduction Welcome to the first part of a series of posts about Exploring & Reversing Windows Concepts and Internals. If you reach here then you’re probably a security researcher or a programmer and this post and similar posts can help you understand what’s going on in some parts of Windows when you use objects with different users and credentials and what you can expect from Windows and how it internally works. If you want to follow other parts of this…
Introduction Hi guys, The title of this topic is somehow weird, if you think everything in MSDN is 100% match with what Microsoft implemented in Windows (like what I used to think), you’re definitely wrong, this post shows some proofs and in the last part, I’ll give you a solution to ACCESS_RIGHTS problem. Before starting let’s talk about some backgrounds about “ACCESS_MASK“. Most of the explanations derived from here. Backgrounds The ACCESS_MASK data type is a DWORD value that defines standard, specific, and generic…
Introduction Hello and welcome to the 6th part of the tutorial Hypervisor From Scratch. In this part, I try to give you an idea of how to virtualize an already running system using Hypervisor. Like other parts, this part is really dependent to the previous parts so make sure to read them first. Overview In the 6th part, we’ll see how we can virtualize our currently running system by configuring VMCS, then we use monitoring features to detect execution of…