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Windows APT Warfare

You're reading from   Windows APT Warfare Identify and prevent Windows APT attacks effectively

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618110
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sheng-Hao Ma Sheng-Hao Ma
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Modern Windows Compiler
2. Chapter 1: From Source to Binaries – The Journey of a C Program FREE CHAPTER 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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix – NTFS, Paths, and Symbols

PE files to HTML

So far, you should understand that the PE file is simply a package specification that indicates system and application loaders to spray the contents of each expected section during compilation.

However, tinyLinker is a linker that we implemented manually. Those of you who are experienced in this area will know that we don’t need to use all the fields in the PE structure to generate an executable file. This means that an actual executable only takes a few fields in the PE structure to create an executable EXE file, and the system is fully capable of correctly spraying the content of individual sections into the correct dynamic space.

Researcher Osanda Malith (https://osandamalith.com/2020/07/19/hacking-the-world-with-html/) considered a question: since PE files can be only loaded and executed correctly with a few fields, what about the remaining unused space in the PE structure? In Figure 2.22, we can see that the important and indestructible fields in...

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