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PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:04 pm    Post subject: RPM Hook Crashing CE Reply with quote

I have made a plugin to hook OpenProcess and ReadProcessMemory to use my own driver. When I use the hook in my own program using RPM, it works fine. However, when I use it as a CE plugin, CE crashes on RPM.

I have narrowed the problem down to know that CE will only crash when my driver's rpm is called (Driver::read_memory()).

Code:

static BOOL(WINAPI* TrueReadProcessMemory)
    (HANDLE hProcess, LPCVOID lpBaseAddress, LPVOID lpBuffer, SIZE_T nSize, SIZE_T* lpNumberOfBytesRead) = ReadProcessMemory;

BOOL WINAPI InterceptReadProcessMemory(HANDLE hProcess, LPCVOID lpBaseAddress, LPVOID &lpBuffer, SIZE_T nSize, SIZE_T* lpNumberOfBytesRead)
{
    uint64_t buffer;
    Driver::read_memory(curr_pid, (uint64_t)lpBaseAddress, (uint64_t)&buffer, nSize); // breaks the dll
    lpBuffer = (LPVOID)buffer;
    *lpNumberOfBytesRead = nSize;
    return 1;
}


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lpNumberOfBytesRead can be null

and nsize can be bigger than 8

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dark Byte wrote:
lpNumberOfBytesRead can be null

and nsize can be bigger than 8


Seems like fixing the nSize issue fixed my problem. My Cheat Engine no longer crashes and I can read memory correctly. Thanks!

I'm having another issue that I can't figure out. When I have my plugin loaded, nothing comes up in the scans. Even when I know that a certain value exists and my RPM works correctly when entering an address manually.

Here is my updated code.

Code:

BOOL WINAPI InterceptReadProcessMemory(HANDLE hProcess, LPCVOID lpBaseAddress, LPVOID lpBuffer, SIZE_T nSize, SIZE_T* lpNumberOfBytesRead)
{
    BYTE* buffer = new BYTE[nSize];
    memset(buffer, 0, nSize);
    NTSTATUS status = Driver::read_memory(curr_pid, (uint64_t)lpBaseAddress, (uint64_t)&buffer[0], nSize);
    if (NT_SUCCESS(status)) {
        memcpy(lpBuffer, buffer, sizeof(LPVOID));
        if (lpNumberOfBytesRead != NULL) {
            *lpNumberOfBytesRead = nSize;
        }
        return TRUE;
    }
    return FALSE;
}
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

that is because
Code:

memcpy(lpBuffer, buffer, sizeof(LPVOID));

only copies 8 bytes, as an LPVOID is 8 bytes long

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dark Byte wrote:
that is because
Code:

memcpy(lpBuffer, buffer, sizeof(LPVOID));

only copies 8 bytes, as an LPVOID is 8 bytes long


This should be correct though right? I am just swapping the address of the passed variable with the address of the buffer. Which would both be only 8 bytes long.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

no, lpBuffer points to a block of memory that is nSize bytes long
buffer is also a block of memory that is nSize bytes long (the new BYTE[nSize]; does that )

Driver::read_memory reads nsize bytes into buffer


yet, you just do a memcpy(lpBuffer, buffer, 8); which means you only copy 8 bytes from the block that buffer points to memory block that lpBuffer points to

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dark Byte wrote:
no, lpBuffer points to a block of memory that is nSize bytes long
buffer is also a block of memory that is nSize bytes long (the new BYTE[nSize]; does that )

Driver::read_memory reads nsize bytes into buffer


yet, you just do a memcpy(lpBuffer, buffer, Cool; which means you only copy 8 bytes from the block that buffer points to memory block that lpBuffer points to


Still isn't working unless OpenProcess returns a valid handle to the target process. Are you aware of any other function I should be hooking within CE in order for search to work other than RPM and OpenProcess?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dark Byte wrote:
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What would be a kernel-mode replacement for this function? I have seen suggestions for ZwQueryVirtualMemory but this function requires a handle to the process which what I am trying to avoid.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

look at the pagetable

See CE's driver sourcecode on how it's done (it works without handles)

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