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Driver to Hide Processes and Files. Second Edition: Splicing

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This article describes a driver that hides processes and files using the method of splicing.
#include "drvCommon.h"
#include "HookFactory.h"
#include "FileHook.h"
#include "StringUtils.h"
#include "FileHideAlgorithm.h"

extern "C"
{
typedef struct _FILE_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION {
    ULONG NextEntryOffset;
    ULONG Unknown;
    LARGE_INTEGER CreationTime;
    LARGE_INTEGER LastAccessTime;
    LARGE_INTEGER LastWriteTime;
    LARGE_INTEGER ChangeTime;
    LARGE_INTEGER EndOfFile;
    LARGE_INTEGER AllocationSize;
    ULONG FileAttributes;
    ULONG FileNameLength;
    ULONG EaInformationLength;
    WCHAR FileName[1];
} FILE_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION, *PFILE_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION;

typedef struct _FILE_BOTH_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION { 
    ULONG NextEntryOffset;
    ULONG Unknown;
    LARGE_INTEGER CreationTime;
    LARGE_INTEGER LastAccessTime;
    LARGE_INTEGER LastWriteTime;
    LARGE_INTEGER ChangeTime;
    LARGE_INTEGER EndOfFile;
    LARGE_INTEGER AllocationSize;
    ULONG FileAttributes;
    ULONG FileNameLength;
    ULONG EaInformationLength;
    UCHAR AlternateNameLength;
    WCHAR AlternateName[12];
    WCHAR FileName[1];
} FILE_BOTH_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION, *PFILE_BOTH_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION;

/*NtQueryDirectoryFile*/
typedef NTSTATUS (*NtQueryDirFilePtr)(
    IN HANDLE FileHandle,
    IN HANDLE Event OPTIONAL,
    IN PIO_APC_ROUTINE ApcRoutine OPTIONAL, 
    IN PVOID ApcContext OPTIONAL,
    OUT PIO_STATUS_BLOCK IoStatusBlock,
    OUT PVOID FileInformation,
    IN ULONG FileInformationLength,
    IN FILE_INFORMATION_CLASS FileInformationClass,
    IN BOOLEAN ReturnSingleEntry,
    IN PUNICODE_STRING FileName OPTIONAL,
    IN BOOLEAN RestartScan
    );
};

namespace HideDriver
{
const wchar_t* strZwQueryDirectoryFile = L"ZwQueryDirectoryFile";

/*Pointer to original NtQueryDirectoryFile function*/
NtQueryDirFilePtr TrueNtQueryDirectoryFile;

/*File checker decide hide file or not*/
HideAlgorithm::IFileChecker* gFileChecker;

/*NewNtQueryDirectoryFile: hooked version of NtQueryDirectoryFile function*/
NTSTATUS NewNtQueryDirectoryFile(IN HANDLE FileHandle,
                                 IN HANDLE Event OPTIONAL,
                                 IN PIO_APC_ROUTINE ApcRoutine OPTIONAL,
                                 IN PVOID ApcContext OPTIONAL,
                                 OUT PIO_STATUS_BLOCK IoStatusBlock,
                                 OUT PVOID FileInformation,
                                 IN ULONG FileInformationLength,
                                 IN FILE_INFORMATION_CLASS FileInformationClass,
                                 IN BOOLEAN ReturnSingleEntry,
                                 IN PUNICODE_STRING FileName OPTIONAL,
                                 IN BOOLEAN RestartScan);

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

FileHook::FileHook(HideAlgorithm::IFileChecker* fileChecker)
{
    gFileChecker = fileChecker;
}

void FileHook::Initialize(HookMng& hookMng)
{
    std::wstring functionName(strZwQueryDirectoryFile);
    UNICODE_STRING functionNameUnc = utils::wstring2UnicodeStr(functionName); 

    hook_ = CreateSSTHook( &NewNtQueryDirectoryFile ,&functionNameUnc);

    // Need to save original function address before apply hook
    TrueNtQueryDirectoryFile = (NtQueryDirFilePtr)hook_.trueFuncPtr;

    hookMng.AddHook(hook_);
}

void FileHook::Cleanup(HookMng& hookMng)
{
    hookMng.DeleteHook(hook_);
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

NTSTATUS OriginalHandlerWrapper(const HideAlgorithm::NtQueryDirParams& params)
{
	return TrueNtQueryDirectoryFile(params.FileHandle,
									params.Event,
									params.ApcRoutine,
									params.ApcContext,
									params.IoStatusBlock,
									params.FileInformation,
									params.FileInformationLength,
									params.FileInformationClass,
									params.ReturnSingleEntry, 
									params.FileName , 
									params.RestartScan);
}

NTSTATUS NewNtQueryDirectoryFile(IN HANDLE FileHandle,
                                 IN HANDLE Event OPTIONAL,
                                 IN PIO_APC_ROUTINE ApcRoutine OPTIONAL,
                                 IN PVOID ApcContext OPTIONAL,
                                 OUT PIO_STATUS_BLOCK IoStatusBlock,
                                 OUT PVOID FileInformation,    
                                 IN ULONG FileInformationLength,
                                 IN FILE_INFORMATION_CLASS FileInformationClass,
                                 IN BOOLEAN ReturnSingleEntry,
                                 IN PUNICODE_STRING FileName OPTIONAL,
                                 IN BOOLEAN RestartScan)
{
	using namespace HideAlgorithm;

	NtQueryDirParams params = {FileHandle,Event,ApcRoutine,ApcContext,
		IoStatusBlock,FileInformation,FileInformationLength,
		FileInformationClass,ReturnSingleEntry,FileName,RestartScan};
	
	NTSTATUS status = OriginalHandlerWrapper(params);
    if( !NT_SUCCESS(status) )
        return status;

	params.RestartScan = FALSE; // Search must be continued
	// Save original handler to request more data in future
	HideParams hideParams = {params,gFileChecker,&OriginalHandlerWrapper};

    switch(FileInformationClass)
    {
    case FileDirectoryInformation:
        return HideFile<FILE_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION>(hideParams);
    case FileFullDirectoryInformation:
        return HideFile<FILE_FULL_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION>(hideParams);
    case FileBothDirectoryInformation:        
        return HideFile<FILE_BOTH_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION>(hideParams);
    case FileNamesInformation:
        return HideFile<FILE_NAMES_INFORMATION>(hideParams);
    case FileIdBothDirectoryInformation: // Used by Vista and later explorer
        return HideFile<FILE_ID_BOTH_DIR_INFORMATION>(hideParams);
    case FileIdFullDirectoryInformation: // Used by Vista and later explorer
        return HideFile<FILE_ID_FULL_DIR_INFORMATION>(hideParams);
    default:return status;
    }
}
}// namespace HideDriver

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