SpyStudio is now free and available for download here. It is a Swiss Army knife for cyber security analysts, DevOps, QA engineers, and developers. You can take a look at the articles “Nektra and VMware are Collaborating to Simplify Application Virtualization Packaging” and “How Nektra Improved Desktop Virtualization for Symantec Corporation” to see how big […]
What is your computer’s maximum render quality, resolution, and frames per second for Battlefield 3? Hard core gamers are eager to show off their expensive, tuned setup at its full potential. Overclocked processors and computers cooled with liquid hydrogen are lovely parts of the gaming folklore. The source code below instruments Direct3D 9 applications to […]
Using Deviare to Cheat on Games This simple Deviare code allows you to to see through game walls. We intercept Direct3D objects and select wireframe mode so the walls are transparent. This code injects a DLL to create an object based on the IDirect3D9 interface and hook the address of the CreateDevice COM method from […]
Note: we updated the code on August 23, 2013. The new code includes an “abort” feature, discussed in the article Instrumenting Microsoft SQL Server to Abort Dangerous Queries. Our Deviare hooking engine can be used to hook into Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM (11.00.2100.60) and 2014 CTP1 queries at the application level. Tools like WireShark use a […]
The Deviare Interception Engine includes a feature that allows developers to add plugins to hooks. When a hooked API is called, it will raise the OnFunctionCalled method of all attached plugins to allow the reading and writing of parameters, and passing custom parameters to the INktSpyMgr object. Since the method is called in the context […]
The code below uses Python to intercept the CreateFile function on the kernel32.dll to forbid opening certain files. It hooks the CreateFile function for the notepad.exe application. The Python code is very small and to the point, and you can customize it for your own purposes. For example, it can be used to sandbox an […]
The VBScript script below shows how to intercept Win32 registry APIs such as RegOpenKey and RegQueryValue using the Deviare Interception Engine. Windows Internals’ Process Monitor, the tool most often used to monitor registry operations, cannot be customized. There is a large VBScript community that will benefit from adding intercepting options to scripts. Registry interception can […]
Controlling Playback Speed Our Deviare Hooking Engine can be used to speed up or slow down a video during playback using the code available here (github repository). This code is pretty small and clearly shows how Deviare handles the complexities of API hooking. Although this sample code deals only with video it is also possible to […]
Hooking spoolsv.exe Printers in an organization are an easy target for abuse. Developing an application to log printer activity requires expertise in Microsoft Windows internals. The simple code below allows you to quickly use our Deviare Interception Engine to log printer activity. The application runs on the computer the printer is connected to and logs […]
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