start.cpp File Reference

.start command More...

#include "pch.h"

Functions
VOID	CommandStartHelp ()
	help of the .start command
VOID	CommandStart (vector< string > SplitCommand, string Command)
	.start command handler

Variables
std::wstring	g_StartCommandPath
	the start path used in .start command
std::wstring	g_StartCommandPathAndArguments
	the start arguments used in .start command
BOOLEAN	g_IsSerialConnectedToRemoteDebugger
	Shows if the debugger was connected to remote debugger (A remote host)

Detailed Description

.start command

Author

Sina Karvandi (sina@.nosp@m.hype.nosp@m.rdbg..nosp@m.org)

Version

0.1

Date

2022-01-06

Copyright

This project is released under the GNU Public License v3.

Function Documentation

CommandStart()

VOID CommandStart	(	vector< string >	SplitCommand,
		string	Command )

.start command handler

Parameters

SplitCommand
Command

Returns

VOID

{
    vector<string> PathAndArgs;
    string         Arguments = "";
 
    //
    // Disable user-mode debugger in this version
    //
#if ActivateUserModeDebugger == FALSE
 
    if (!g_IsSerialConnectedToRemoteDebugger)
    {
        ShowMessages("the user-mode debugger in VMI Mode is still in the beta version and not stable. "
                     "we decided to exclude it from this release and release it in future versions. "
                     "if you want to test the user-mode debugger in VMI Mode, you should build "
                     "HyperDbg with special instructions. But starting processes is fully supported "
                     "in the Debugger Mode.\n"
                     "(it's not recommended to use it in VMI Mode yet!)\n");
        return;
    }
 
#endif // !ActivateUserModeDebugger
 
    if (SplitCommand.size() <= 2)
    {
        ShowMessages("incorrect use of the '.start'\n\n");
        CommandStartHelp();
        return;
    }
 
    if (!SplitCommand.at(1).compare("path"))
    {
        //
        // *** It's a run of target PE file ***
        //
 
        //
        // Trim the command
        //
        Trim(Command);
 
        //
        // Remove '.start' or 'start' from it
        //
        Command.erase(0, SplitCommand.at(0).size());
 
        //
        // Remove path + space
        //
        Command.erase(0, 4 + 1);
 
        //
        // Trim it again
        //
        Trim(Command);
 
        //
        // Split Path and args
        //
        SplitPathAndArgs(PathAndArgs, Command);
 
        //
        // Convert path to wstring
        //
        StringToWString(g_StartCommandPath, PathAndArgs.at(0));
 
        if (PathAndArgs.size() != 1)
        {
            //
            // There are arguments to this command
            //
 
            for (auto item : PathAndArgs)
            {
                //
                // Append the arguments
                //
                // ShowMessages("Arg : %s\n", item.c_str());
                Arguments += item + " ";
            }
 
            //
            // Remove the latest space
            //
            Arguments.pop_back();
 
            //
            // Convert arguments to wstring
            //
            StringToWString(g_StartCommandPathAndArguments, Arguments);
        }
    }
    else
    {
        ShowMessages("err, couldn't resolve error at '%s'\n\n",
                     SplitCommand.at(1).c_str());
        CommandStartHelp();
        return;
    }
 
    //
    // Perform run of the target file
    //
    if (Arguments.empty())
    {
        UdAttachToProcess(NULL,
                          g_StartCommandPath.c_str(),
                          NULL,
                          FALSE);
    }
    else
    {
        UdAttachToProcess(NULL,
                          g_StartCommandPath.c_str(),
                          (WCHAR *)g_StartCommandPathAndArguments.c_str(),
                          FALSE);
    }
}

CommandStartHelp()

VOID CommandStartHelp

(

)

help of the .start command

Returns

VOID

{
    ShowMessages(".start : runs a user-mode process.\n\n");
 
    ShowMessages("syntax : \t.start [path Path (string)] [Parameters (string)]\n");
 
    ShowMessages("\n");
    ShowMessages("\t\te.g : .start path c:\\reverse eng\\my_file.exe\n");
}

Variable Documentation

g_IsSerialConnectedToRemoteDebugger

BOOLEAN g_IsSerialConnectedToRemoteDebugger

extern

Shows if the debugger was connected to remote debugger (A remote host)

g_StartCommandPath

std::wstring g_StartCommandPath

extern

the start path used in .start command

g_StartCommandPathAndArguments

std::wstring g_StartCommandPathAndArguments

extern

the start arguments used in .start command