RegHookEx

RegHookEx is a way of creating your own pointers, copied from registers in a function.
It works both internally and externally.

More specificly, it's a midfunction hooking library, who's purpose is to retrieve register data at any particular point in a process.

Sample:

RegHookEx AngleFuncHook(rpm.hProcess, 0x1415de64e);
DWORD64 pAngleFunc = AngleFuncHook.GetAddressOfHook();

pAngleFunc is equal to a value allocated in memory by RegHookEx.
For example, 0x2880000. At this address, is a class of type RegDump.

class RegDump
{
public:
	char pad_0000[88]; //0x0000
	DWORD64 RBX; //0x0058
	DWORD64 RSP; //0x0060
	DWORD64 RDI; //0x0068
	DWORD64 RSI; //0x0070
	DWORD64 RBP; //0x0078
	DWORD64 RDX; //0x0080
	DWORD64 RCX; //0x0088
	DWORD64 RAX; //0x0090
}; //Size: 0x0140

This is very helpful both internally and externally.
Say I have a class, ViewAngle. ViewAngle contains a float for yaw at 0x68, and a float for pitch at 0x6c. I know that at the function at 0x1415de64e, register RBX is a ViewAngle pointer.
Here are some samples for this example on how to do this both internally and externally.

Internal:

RegHookEx AngleFuncHook(GetCurrentProcess(), 0x1415de64e);
RegDump* pRegDump = (RegDump*)AngleFuncHook.GetAddressOfHook();
ViewAngle* pViewAngle = (ViewAngle*)(pRegDump->RDI);

External:

RegHookEx AngleFuncHook(mem.hProcess, 0x1415de64e);
RegDump pRegDump = mem.Read<RegDump>(AngleFuncHook.GetAddressOfHook());
ViewAngle pViewAngle = mem.Read<ViewAngle>(pRegDump.RDI);

Viola, writeable viewangles.

How it works

RegHookEx is rather complicated, but is still efficient.
Using the same address and function as I used above, here's what goes on behind the scenes.

fde64

The hook takes 17 bytes to write, and requires RAX to be used for the call.
I'm using fde64 for length dissasembly, so the nearest instruction end after 17 is located automaticlly.

Original Function

Here is the function with RegHookEx installed.

The first thing that happens, is some memory is allocated for the hooked function.
This is where program flow will be redirected to temporarily.

mov [0x2880090], rax    ; save rax to allocated space address + 0x90
mov rax, 0x2880000      ; move allocated space address into rax
call rax

This takes up 17 bytes. Any unused bytes must be NOP'd, in this example none need to be since the function we're overwriting already is 17 bytes.

Hooked Function

Now at the hooked function:

First thing, rax gets restored.

mov rax, [0x2880090]

The next 17 bytes have been copied from the original function, and placed here. The target process doesn't know this ever happened.

This is followed by a shitload of NOPs. This allows for all instructions to get hooked (up to 15 bytes, aka max).

RIP Relative Addressing

Writing all of these manually would be a pain, so I'm using RIP addressing. I'm writing it by:

mov [rip + 96], rcx ; ->0x88
mov [rip + 81], rdx ; ->0x80
mov [rip + 66], rbp ; ->0x78
mov [rip + 51], rsi ; ->0x70
mov [rip + 36], rdi ; ->0x68
mov [rip + 21], rsp ; ->0x60
mov [rip + 6], rbx ; ->0x58

This accounts for the RET, as well as the misalignment of the class, thus re-aligning it to the 0'th byte.

Optimization

Due to the wonders of the RIP register, I only need to write one address into the hooked function for it to work. The hook itself requires two in order to preserve RAX. You no longer need to specify a length for RegHookEx to work, that is done for you too.

Full Shellcode

The Hooked Function allocated in memory:

// shellcode for the hkedfunc
byte* hkpatch = new byte[83]{	// using byte* so I don't have to cast when using memcpy
    // use rip relative addressing to make things more efficent
    0x48, 0x8B, 0x05, 0x89, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  //  mov rax, [rip + 137]  ;  0x90
    0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90,  //  nop * 26
    0x48, 0x89, 0x0D, 0x60, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  //  mov [rip + 96], rcx ; ->0x88
    0x48, 0x89, 0x15, 0x51, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  //  mov [rip + 81], rdx ; ->0x80
    0x48, 0x89, 0x2D, 0x42, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  //  mov [rip + 66], rbp ; ->0x78
    0x48, 0x89, 0x35, 0x33, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  //  mov [rip + 51], rsi ; ->0x70
    0x48, 0x89, 0x3D, 0x24, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  //  mov [rip + 36], rdi ; ->0x68
    0x48, 0x89, 0x25, 0x15, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  //  mov [rip + 21], rsp ; ->0x60
    0x48, 0x89, 0x1D, 0x06, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  //  mov [rip + 6], rbx ; ->0x58
    0xC3  //  ret
};

The hook:

byte* funcpath = new byte[32]{ 
    0x48, 0x89, 0x04, 0x25, 0x90, 0x34, 0x12, 0x00,		// mov [raxpath], rax
    0x48, 0xC7, 0xC0, 0x00, 0x34, 0x12, 0x00,		// mov rax, this->HookedAddress
    0xFF, 0xD0 ,		// call rax ;	0x17
    0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90 }; // extra nops

Unhooking

Unhooking can be done in two different ways.

Per-class
With the static method
Using the static method on exit

Per-class unhooking:

Unhooks and repairs the original function.

AngleFuncHook.DestroyHook();

Static Method:

Unhooks and repairs original functions of all active instances of RegHookEx.

RegHookEx::DestroyAllHooks();

Automated Unhooking:

Use this for externals to Unhook whenever you exit the console.

bool ctrlh(DWORD event)
{
    if (event == CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT) {
        std::cout << "Deleting All Hooks" << std::endl;
        RegHookEx::DestroyAllHooks();
        return TRUE;
    }
    return FALSE;
}

void main() {
    SetConsoleCtrlHandler((PHANDLER_ROUTINE)(ctrlh), TRUE);
    // your stuff
}

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