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Launching an app with CreateProcess
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:57 pm
by Exempt
I'm trying to make a new DLL injector and thought this would be the easy part... Everytime I try to launch the game it crashes shortly after. I just need to start the program like this so I can auto inject a DLL to detour the d3d functions I need.
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#include <windows.h>
int main()
{
//ShellExecute( NULL, NULL, "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Xenimus\\Xenimus.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW );
STARTUPINFO siStartupInfo;
PROCESS_INFORMATION piProcessInfo;
memset(&siStartupInfo, 0, sizeof(siStartupInfo));
memset(&piProcessInfo, 0, sizeof(piProcessInfo));
siStartupInfo.cb = sizeof(siStartupInfo);
LPTSTR lpCommandLine = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Xenimus/Xenimus.exe";
int i = CreateProcess(NULL, lpCommandLine, NULL, NULL, TRUE, CREATE_NO_WINDOW, NULL, NULL, &siStartupInfo, &piProcessInfo);
}
Re: Launching an app with CreateProcess
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:05 pm
by Administrator
You can try using the code from the injector plugin.
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int injectDll(HWND hwnd, const char *dll)
{
DWORD pId;
GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, &pId);
HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, pId);
if( hProcess == NULL )
return GetLastError();
LPVOID lpRemoteAddress = VirtualAllocEx(hProcess, NULL, strlen(dll),
MEM_RESERVE|MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE);
if( lpRemoteAddress == NULL )
return GetLastError();
if( !WriteProcessMemory(hProcess, lpRemoteAddress, (LPVOID)dll,
strlen(dll), NULL) )
return GetLastError();
if( CreateRemoteThread(hProcess, NULL, 0,
(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle("Kernel32"),
"LoadLibraryA"), lpRemoteAddress, 0, NULL) == NULL )
return GetLastError();
return 0;
}
int startInjectDll(const char *dll, const char *target, const char *cmd)
{
//char *execname;
char execpath[2048];
getFilePath(execpath, (char*)target, 2048);
STARTUPINFO si; ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(si));
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; ZeroMemory(&pi, sizeof(pi));
si.cb = sizeof(si);
bool createok = CreateProcess( (CHAR*)target, (CHAR*)cmd, NULL, NULL, false,
CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE | CREATE_SUSPENDED, NULL, execpath, &si, &pi);
if( !createok )
return GetLastError();
HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, pi.dwProcessId);
if( hProcess == NULL )
return GetLastError();
LPVOID lpRemoteAddress = VirtualAllocEx(hProcess, NULL, strlen(dll),
MEM_RESERVE|MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE);
if( lpRemoteAddress == NULL )
return GetLastError();
if( !WriteProcessMemory(hProcess, lpRemoteAddress, (LPVOID)dll,
strlen(dll), NULL) )
return GetLastError();
if( CreateRemoteThread(hProcess, NULL, 0,
(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle("Kernel32"),
"LoadLibraryA"), lpRemoteAddress, 0, NULL) == NULL )
return GetLastError();
ResumeThread(pi.hThread);
return 0;
}
Re: Launching an app with CreateProcess
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:23 pm
by Exempt
Is getFilePath() an existing functions somewhere or is that a homemade one? That would be handy to have later on.
Re: Launching an app with CreateProcess
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:24 pm
by Administrator
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void getFilePath(char *dest, char *src, int destlen)
{
int copypos = 0;
int len = strlen(src);
for(int i = 0; i < len; i++)
{
if( src[i] == '/' || src[i] == '\\' )
copypos = i + 1;
if( i >= destlen )
break;
}
if( copypos > destlen )
copypos = destlen;
strncpy(dest, src, copypos);
dest[copypos] = 0;
}
Re: Launching an app with CreateProcess
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:13 pm
by Exempt
Ah, I thought your function was something else.
I honestly have no idea why it works with your code and not mine. I tried using both the first and second params to run the app both ways it wouldn't work right. Your code is fine though, I'm gonna have to figure that one out. Thanks for the help. D3D fun time now.
Re: Launching an app with CreateProcess
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:18 pm
by Administrator
Since you would need to have hooked all the D3D functions before the creation of the D3D device, you will need to use the startWithDll() function instead of injectDll(). I'm guessing you're probably doing this, but I thought I would make sure.
Re: Launching an app with CreateProcess
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:54 pm
by Exempt
Yup, thanks. I ended up with a pretty nice Inject I may add a gui to it later on. Really in this case it's going to be a launcher for the game and inject my dll.