/Reloc

Transform dumped executable memory back into an identical match from disk. Use network or local database to de-locate relocated binaries and ensure a cryptographically secure hash match for code running on your legacy systems. A client tool that downloads relocation data for various PE files. This ensures when extracting data from memory dumps that you can match memory to disk files precisely.

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Reloc

A client tool that interfaces with a server we host (Thanks @IOActive) with over 200000 fragments of relocation data that is compiled from various PE files. This ensures when extracting data from memory dumps that you can match memory to disk files precisely. I've targeted @dotnet/coreclr and @dotnet/wcf under the hood.

CORECLR

This code target's coreclr to maximize portability. Most development has taken place on Windows so there is a little bit of test that needs to be done for Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, etc... I'll likely be implementing some workarounds for the WCF SOAP API calls to ensure an alternative mechanism is in place to contact the server.

TODO

I'm done with this code for a while. I attached an example report from WinMerge from a binary dumped with Volatility then block hashed to 512 bytes sizes with Tiger 192 (the same as BlockWatch currently uses :).

Extract relocations from .pdb's as an alternative for MS files.

As you can see Reloc enabled the dumped binary to match almost exactly.

Compare the difference without using Reloc and using Reloc.

Quick note to dumper writers

If your using Reloc make sure you validate precisely the sections so your not accidentally missing code due to alignment/code caves.

Next will be a command for delocating a dumped binary. That is, an image extracted from memory to disk (one-to-one) delocation so that any position dependent instructions/references are fixed (delocated) to their original values. Null pages are accounted for since we can not depend on a runtime page fault to cause all of a given binary to load. This does add a bit of complexity to the DeLocate routine. It's currently implemented unsafe since ported from C, will be moving to safe soon.

Delocation code is in place however is only exposed to API callers not CLI.

Program.cs has a set of upcoming features, feel free to contact or use github to give us some requests. If nobody else does it I'll try to figure out some python to integrate into @volatility.

Examples

.NET coreclr restore/run like so;

dnu restore
dnx [command] [args]
dnx commands
Error: Unable to load application or execute command 'commands'. Available commands: Reloc, Extract.

Not all of our routines are optimized yet, it seems like the async IO in coreclr is doing really well, as you can see below, pretty respectable performance for non-native code nearly 3500 read/writes in less than 13 seconds.

Example: dnx run Extract c:\windows\system32 d:\temp\test

X:\Reloc\src\Reloc>dnu restore
Microsoft .NET Development Utility CoreClr-x64-1.0.0-rc2-16249
...
Writing lock file X:\Reloc\src\Reloc\project.lock.json
Restore complete, 2714ms elapsed

X:\Reloc\src\Reloc>dnx run Extract c:\windows\system32 d:\temp\test
Scanning folder c:\windows\system32 and saving relocs into d:\temp\test.
...
extracted relocs into d:\temp\test\ztrace_maps.dll-180000000-564D22CC.reloc size 512
processing time: 00:00:12.9261101
Compiled 3493 new .reloc data fragments

Example: DeLocate

This command string is a little out of control. I'll add some switches to make it a bit easier or something ;). Specifying "dnvm exec default dnx " is an alternative way to get the runtime version your looking for.

Delocate will attempt to automatically rebuild the complete executable on disk from memory. The only differences should be;

  1. Data section, if anybody has idea how to reverse the data, that will be interesting.
  2. .reloc missing, it dosent really matter since you download or captured .reloc locally in the first place, you can cat >> the reloc to the end of your new binary if you would like.
  3. There may be some artifacts regarding the resources depending on the application specifics. I havent looked at resource handling in a minute.
dnvm exec default dnx DeLocate d:dumped.msctf.dll d:msctf.dll-10000000-564D1E7B.reloc 77740000 d:delocated.msctf.dll False

Example: dnx Reloc True ntdll 51DA4B7D

After you clone into a directory

c:\git>git clone https://github.com/ShaneK2/Reloc.git
Cloning into 'Reloc'...
remote: Counting objects: 18, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (16/16), done.
remote: Total 18 (delta 2), reused 13 (delta 1), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (18/18), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

c:\git>cd Reloc\src\Reloc

c:\git\Reloc\src\Reloc>dnu restore

Microsoft .NET Development Utility CoreClr-x64-1.0.0-rc2-16237

  CACHE https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/
  CACHE https://ci.appveyor.com/nuget/gemini-g84phgw340sm/
  CACHE https://www.myget.org/F/aspnetvnext/api/v2/
  CACHE https://www.myget.org/F/dotnet-core/api/v3/index.json
Restoring packages for C:\Temp\testing\Reloc\src\Reloc\project.json
  CACHE https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/FindPackagesById()?id='System.Reflection.TypeExtensions'
  CACHE https://ci.appveyor.com/nuget/gemini-g84phgw340sm/FindPackagesById()?id='System.Reflection.TypeExtensions'
  CACHE https://www.myget.org/F/aspnetvnext/api/v2/FindPackagesById()?id='System.Reflection.TypeExtensions'
  CACHE https://www.myget.org/F/dotnet-core/api/v3/flatcontainer/system.reflection.typeextensions/index.json
Writing lock file C:\Temp\testing\Reloc\src\Reloc\project.lock.json
Restore complete, 973ms elapsed

c:\git\Reloc\src\Reloc>dnx Reloc True ntdll 51DA4B7D
Contacting, dest file [ntdll-?####?-51DA4B7D.reloc.7z]: 64bit:True, Region(dll):ntdll, TimeDateStamp:51DA4B7D.
Downloaded to NTDLL.DLL-78E50000-51DA4B7D.reloc.7z, size 905.

c:\git\Reloc\src\Reloc>dir NTDLL.DLL-78E50000-51DA4B7D.reloc.7z
 
 Directory of \git\Reloc\src\Reloc

11/27/2015  02:52 PM               905 NTDLL.DLL-78E50000-51DA4B7D.reloc.7z

Simply extract and use the data to establish high assurances in your forensics process.

Bugs

  • Fixe'dm all ;)
  • For some reason when the last word is written out (the buffers are being delocated) they do not appear back on disk. Currently I modify the delocation buffer in-place so in the event your not using disk files and call this method w/o hitting the disk we don't need to waste too much, it's probably a worthless micro-opt anyhow.