Retrieval of the Windows timebomb date in multiple languages because for some reason I thought that was a productive use of my time.
In all of the included samples, the magic number 0x7ffe02c8
comes up. This is
the &(USER_SHARED_DATA->SystemExpirationDate)
address. USER_SHARED_DATA
is
the user mode pointer to the KUSER_SHARED_DATA
structure, which allows
user mode code to easily access certain system global data without the need to
invoke a system call.
The SystemExpirationDate
member is documented as follows:
If the system is an evaluation unit, the following field contains the date and time that the evaluation unit expires. A value of 0 indicates that there is no expiration. A non-zero value is the UTC absolute time that the system expires.