System Programming Blog
2023-02-07 09:31:00
This blog is dedicated to low level programming in Assembler and C/C++ (although, C++ is unwelcome) in either *Nix or Windows based operating systems.
March 21, 2012
Sometimes, a need may rise to start a thread in a separate process and the need is not necessarily malicious. For example, one may want to replace library functions or to place some code between the executable and a library function. However, Linux does not provide a system call that would do anything similar to CreateRemoteThread Windows API despite the fact that I see people searching for such functionality.
March 17, 2012
Threads are everywhere. Even now, when you browse this page, threads are involved in the process. Most likely, you have more than one tab opened in the browser and each one has at least one thread associated with it. The server supplying this page runs several threads in order to serve multiple connections simultaneously. There may be unnumbered examples for threads, but let us concentrate on one specific implementation thereof. Namely, Linux implementation of threads.
March 6, 2012
A couple of days ago, I saw that someone was looking for a way to load and use fake KERNEL32.dll and I realized that this information has not yet been covered here. There is no source code for this article as I am a bit short on time to write it, but I will do my best to provide as much information as possible so, those who would want to try it would have no problem doing that.
March 4, 2012
I was recently digging through my sources and came across a small ANN (artificial neural network) library I wrote several months ago in 64 bit Intel Assembly language (FASM syntax) and decided to share it with my respected readers hoping that it may be useful in some cases.
March 2, 2012
There has been said and written too much on how software vendors do not protect their products, so let me skip this. Instead, in this article, I would like to concentrate on those relatively easy steps, which software vendors have to take in order to enhance their protection (using packers and protectors is good, but certainly not enough) by not letting the whole code appear in memory in readable form for a single moment.