Microsoft Research Detours Package

Detours is a software package for monitoring and instrumenting API calls on Windows. It is distributed in source code form. (by microsoft)

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  • Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
    You essentially replace a function with your own. The project is at https://github.com/microsoft/Detours.

    I’ve created a PowerShell module that wraps this library to make it easier to hook functions on the fly for testing https://github.com/jborean93/PSDetour. For example I used it to capture TLS session data for decryption https://gist.github.com/jborean93/6c1f1b3130f2675f1618da5663... as well as create an strace like functionality for various Win32 APIs (still expanding as I find more use cases) https://github.com/jborean93/PSDetour-Hooks

  • #rescuerift
    3 projects | /r/Rift | 27 May 2023
    But the client is much different now, and most of that won't work anymore. The client is heavily obfuscated and you can't use a packet sniffer, the communications are encrypted, you CAN however use things like Microsoft Detours to peek at communications
  • Is it possible to edit the XAML of the Win11 Taskbar?
    2 projects | /r/Windows11 | 18 Jan 2023
    3. Manual hooking (Not recommended): It's possible to use some hooking library like Microsoft Detours to hook the functions responsible for creating the UI layout. I highly unrecommend this method as it's the most method prone to be broken by any change Microsoft does.
  • Using Landlock to Sandbox GNU Make
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Aug 2022
    > With regards to chroot, I stand corrected. I knew it was a tree of symlinks, but I thought it was also more than that because symlinks alone don't seem like a sandbox. Honestly, Cosmopolitan's system appears to be more of a sandbox than that.

    To be totally clear: the tree of symlinks thing is a fallback, used only when lacking platform support or when sandboxing is explicitly turned off [0]. On Linux, the normal sandboxing strategy is to use namespaces, like most container runtimes. On Mac it apparently uses sandbox-exec (some opaque Apple tool), as was mentioned above. Chroot, being both non-POSIX, requiring root access on many systems, and not providing the necessary facilities is not really a great fit -- which I assume is why it's not used.

    There was experimental Windows sandbox support at one point [1] based on how MS does it for BuildXL (their own build tool for giant monorepos) [2]. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be maintained, and under the hood it's kinda ugly -- it actively rewrites code in-memory to intercept calls to the Win32 APIs [3], which was apparently the cleanest/best way MS could come up with. However, from Bazel's POV it works in a roughly similar way -- you spawn subprocesses under a supervisor, which is in charge of spinning up whatever the target process is with restrictions on time/memory usage/file access.

    On the "sandbox in the interpreter" thing: what kind of checks are you envisioning? It seems like putting checks at that level would end up leaving a lot out -- the goal of any build system is to eventually spawn an arbitrary process (Python, gcc, javac, some shell script, etc.) and so even with extensive checks in starlark you'd end up with accidental sandbox breaks all over the place. For pure starlark rules you could e.g. check that there are no inputs from /usr, but even then if gcc does it implicitly, you're SOL. Or am I thinking of the wrong kind of checks?

    [0] https://bazel.build/docs/sandboxing#sandboxing-strategies

    [1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5136#issuecomment...

    [2] https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/master/Documentati...

    [3] https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/wiki

  • Implementing Global Injection and Hooking in Windows
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2022
    If you need to hook methods in a remote process (and also inject payload), you may also consider the Detours library [1]. It has a straightforward API and its repository contains many interesting samples. One thing I was missing in the library was a function to inject code into a running process. So I wrote takedetour [2] which I use as a template for my other projects. Maybe you will find it useful as well.

    [1] https://github.com/microsoft/Detours

    [2] https://github.com/lowleveldesign/takedetour

  • How does one make app for overlays in videogames?
    2 projects | /r/gamedev | 16 Aug 2021
    From a technical perspective, you have to inject yourself into the running game and put your drawing code after the game finishes its drawing code. For example, you could hook some APIs with Detours. Or create a fake DirectX/OpenGL DLL that intercepts the drawing calls and passes it along to the real DLL. With Vulkan you can also investigate creating your overlay as a custom layer.
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