launches uwp apps and injects dll's into them as early as possible by posing as a debugger and launching the app suspended
if you need a sample dll, here's one that hooks some uwp interfaces for debugging and reverse engineering https://github.com/Francesco149/uwpspy
might have a GUI to let you pick apps to launch eventually, not a proprity at the moment
will provide binaries when it's more polished
compiling
install visual c++ build tools 2017 and the windows 10 sdk
open powershell and navigate to uwpinject
.\vcvarsall17.ps1
.\build.ps1usage (command line)
open powershell, navigate to uwpinject and run
.\uwpinject.exe $((Get-AppxPackage uwp-template).PackageFullName)where MyPackage is the name of your target app
this will launch the app and inject all dlls in the dlls folder
which must be located in the same directory as uwpinject.exe
if it doesn't work, try running powershell as admin. I haven't had issues injecting as user though
resources on uwp and winrt internals
- https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/17127/how-to-reverse-engineer-a-windows-10-uwp-app
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/appmodel/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/automate-launching-uwp-apps
- https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/OCAT/blob/2226171673f3c89369f4b70cf72f12daa94bf5c1/UWPOverlay/UWPOverlay.cpp
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-apis/interop-winrt-abi
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-apis/interop-winrt-cx