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The cloak was gone as I expected and I could see all the previously hidden files in Explorer and Registry keys in Regedit.
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They’ll have to come up with a new approach to their rootkit sooner or later anyway, since system call hookingĭoes not work at all on 圆4 64-bit versions of WindowsĪfter I finished studying the driver's code I rebooted the system. The programmer failed to consider the race condition I’ve described.
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There’s no way for a driver to protect against this occurrence, but the Aries driver supports unloading and tries to keep track of whether any threads are executing its code. It’s never safe to unload a driver that patches the system call table since some thread might be just about to execute the first instruction of a hooked function when the driver unloads if that happens the thread will jump into invalid memory. Besides being indiscriminate about the objects it cloaks, other parts of the Aries code show a lack of sophistication on the part of the programmer. To verify that I made a copy of Notepad.exe named $sys$notepad.exe and it disappeared from view. I studied the driver’s initialization function, confirmed that it patches several functions via the system call table and saw that its cloaking code hides any file, directory, Registry key or process whose name begins with “$sys$”. Here’s a screenshot of IDA Pro’s disassembly of the code that calculates the entries in the system service table that correspond to the functions it wants to manipulate: , a powerful disassembler I use in my exploration of Windows internals. Perhaps renaming the driver and rebooting would remove the cloak, but I also wanted to see if Aries.sys was doing more than cloaking so I copied it to an uncloaked directory and loaded it into Sure enough, I was able to enter and access most of the hidden files: I therefore checked to see if I could examine the files within the hidden directory by opening a command prompt and changing into the hidden directory. Although RKR indicated that the \Windows\System32\$sys$filesystem directory was hidden from the Windows API, it’s common for rootkits to hide directories from a directory listing, but not to prevent a hidden directory from being opened directly.
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I listed one of the intercepting functions and saw that it was part of the Aries.sys device driver, which was one of the images I had seen cloaked in the $sys$filesystem directory:Īrmed with the knowledge of what driver implemented the cloaking I set off to see if I could disable the cloak and expose the hidden processes, files, directories, and Registry data.
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Dumping the table in Livekd revealed several patched functions: It’s relatively easy to spot system call hooking simply by dumping the contents of the service table: all entries should point at addresses that lie within the Windows kernel any that don’t are patched functions. If a driver replaces an entry in the table with a pointer to its own function then the kernel invokes the driver function any time an application executes the API and the driver can control the behavior of the API. Every kernel service that’s exported for use by Windows applications has a pointer in a table that’s indexed with the internal service number Windows assigns to the API.
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A common way to intercept kernel-mode application APIs is to patch the kernel’s system service table, a technique that I pioneered with Bryce for Windows back in 1996 when we wrote the first version of Rootkits that hide files, directories and Registry keys can either execute in user mode by patching Windows APIs in each process that applications use to access those objects, or in kernel mode by intercepting the associated kernel-mode APIs. I next turned toĪnd that lets you explore the internals of a live system using the Microsoft kernel debugger, to determine what component was responsible for the cloaking. To look for evidence of code that would activate the rootkit each boot, but I came up empty with both tools.
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Given the fact that I’m careful in my surfing habits and only install software from reputable sources I had no idea how I’d picked up a real rootkit, and if it were not for the suspicious names of the listed files I would have suspected RKR to have a bug. The RKR results window reported a hidden directory, several hidden device drivers, and a hidden application:
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Rootkits are cloaking technologies that hide files, Registry keys, and other system objects from diagnostic and security software, and they are usually employed by malware attempting to keep their implementation hidden (see myĪrticle from thre June issue of Windows IT Pro Magazine for more information on rootkits). (RKR) I ran a scan on one of my systems and was shocked to see evidence of a rootkit. Last week when I was testing the latest version of First published on TechNet on Oct 31, 2005