Hidden

Hidden has been developed like a solution for reverse engineering and researching tasks. This is a windows driver with a usermode interface which is used for hiding specific environment on your windows machine, like installed RCE programs (ex. procmon, wireshark), vm infrastracture (ex. vmware tools) and etc.

Features

hide registry keys and values
hide files and directories
hide processes (experemental, might be not stable)
protect specific processes
exclude specific processes from hiding and protection features
usermode interface (lib and cli) for working with a driver

and so on

System requirements

Windows Vista and above, x86 and x64

Recommended build environment

Visual Studio 2019
Windows Driver Kit 10

Building

Following guide explains how to make a release win32 build

Open Hidden.sln using Visual Studio
Build Hidden Package project with configurations Release, Win32
Open build results folder <ProjectDir>\Release

Installing

Disable a digital signature enforcement on a test machine (bcdedit /set TESTSIGNING ON) and reboot it
Copy files from <ProjectDir>\Release\Hidden Package to a test machine
Right mouse click on Hidden.inf and choose Install
Start a driver (sc start hidden)
Make sure service is running (sc query hidden)

Important: Keep in mind that the driver bitness have to be the same to an OS bitness

Hiding

A command line tool hiddencli is used for managing a driver. You are able to use it for hiding and unhiding objects, changing a driver state and so on.

To hide a file try the command

hiddencli /hide file c:\Windows\System32\calc.exe

Want to hide a directory? No problems

hiddencli /hide dir "c:\Program Files\VMWare"

Registry key?

hiddencli /hide regkey "HKCU\Software\VMware, Inc."

Maybe a process?

hiddencli /hide pid 2340

By a process image name?

hiddencli /hide image apply:forall c:\Windows\Explorer.EXE

To get a full help just type

hiddencli /help