AetherVisor: AMD-V memory hacking library

AetherVisor is a minimalistic type-1 AMD hypervisor that provides a memory hacking interface.

Here's how AetherVisor's features are implemented: https://mellownight.github.io/AetherVisor.

If you experience any bugs, feel free to open an issue and/or propose a better fix.

Features

Syscall hooks via MSR_LSTAR

Aether::SyscallHook::Enable()

Enables process-wide system call hooks.

Aether::SyscallHook::Disable()

Disables system call hooks.

NPT hooks

Aether::NptHook::Set(uintptr_t address, uint8_t* patch, size_t patch_len, NCR3_DIRECTORIES ncr3_id = NCR3_DIRECTORIES::primary, bool global_page = false);

Sets an NPT hook.

patch - Hook shellcode

patch_len - Hook shellcode

length address - Target address

ncr3_id - The nested paging context that the hook is active in.

global_page - Indicates that a global copy-on-write page (e.g. kernel32.dll, ntdll.dll, etc.) is being hooked.

Aether::NptHook::Remove(uintptr_t address);

Removes an NPT hook

address - virtual address of the hook

Branch tracing

Aether::BranchTracer::Init()

Initializes Branch tracer.

Aether::BranchTracer::Trace(uint8_t* start_addr, uintptr_t range_base, uintptr_t range_size, uint8_t* stop_addr = NULL)

Logs every branch executed until either the return address or the stop_addr is reached.

start_addr - Where to start tracing

range_base - Branches that occur below range_base are excluded from the trace

range_base - Branches that occur above range_base + range_size are excluded from the trace

stop_address - Where to stop tracing branches; if this value is NULL, the return address on the stack is used.

Sandboxing and Read/Write/Execute instrumentation

Aether::Sandbox::SandboxRegion(uintptr_t base, uintptr_t size);

Put a region of memory/code into the no-execute region.

Aether::Sandbox::DenyRegionAccess(void* base, size_t range, bool allow_reads);

Intercept read/write access to pages outside of the sandbox for code inside of the sandbox.

base - Base of the region

range - Size of the region

allow_reads - If true, only hook write access; otherwise, hook both read and write access.

Aether::Sandbox::UnboxRegion(uintptr_t base, uintptr_t size);

Removes pages from the sandbox.

base - Base of the region

size - Size of the region

Aether::SetCallback(CALLBACK_ID handler_id, void* address);

Registers an instrumentation callback at address to handle an event at handler_id

Callback IDs and callback function prototypes:


enum CALLBACK_ID
{
    //  void (*sandbox_mem_access_event)(GuestRegisters* registers, void* o_guest_rip);
    sandbox_readwrite = 0, 

    //  void (*sandbox_execute_event)(GuestRegisters* registers, void* return_address, void* original_guest_rip);
    sandbox_execute = 1,

    //  void (*branch_callback)(GuestRegisters* registers, void* return_address, void* original_guest_rip, void* LastBranchFromIP);
    branch = 2,

    //  void (*branch_trace_finish_event)();
    branch_trace_finished = 3,

    //  void (*syscall_hook)(GuestRegisters* registers, void* return_address, void* o_guest_rip);
    syscall = 4,

    max_id,
};

vmmcall interface

svm_vmmcall(VMMCALL_ID, ...)

Calls the hypervisor to do stuff

Components

AetherVisor-lib - Static library that contains wrappers for interfacing with AetherVisor via vmmcall.

AetherVisor-lib-kernel - A version of AetherVisor-api designed for compilation with Windows kernel drivers.

AetherVisor-example - EXE demonstrating AetherVisor's features.

Supported hardware

AMD processors with SVM support

Supported platforms

Windows 7 - Windows 10, x64 only

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