Nidhogg

Nidhogg is a multi-functional rootkit for red teams. The goal of Nidhogg is to provide an all-in-one and easy-to-use rootkit with multiple helpful functionalities for red team engagements that can be integrated with your C2 framework via a single header file with simple usage, you can see an example here.

Nidhogg can work on any version of Windows 10 and Windows 11.

This repository contains a kernel driver with a C++ header to communicate with it.

NOTE: Some functionality might trigger PatchGuard, use it at your own risk!

Current Features

Process hiding
Process elevation
Anti process kill
Anti process dumping
Bypass pe-sieve
Anti file deletion
Anti file overwriting
Registry keys and values anti deletion
Registry keys and values hiding
Registry keys and values anti overwriting
Querying currently protected processes, files and registry keys & values
Arbitrary R/W
Function patching
Built-in AMSI bypass
Built-in ETW patch

Basic Usage

It has a very simple usage, just include the header and get started!

#include "Nidhogg.hpp"

int main() {
    // ...
    DWORD result = NidhoggProcessProtect(pids);
    // ...
}

Setup

Building

To compile the project, you will need the following tools:

Clone the repository and build the driver.

Driver Testing

To test it in your testing environment run those commands with elevated cmd:

bcdedit /set testsigning on

After rebooting, create a service and run the driver:

sc create nidhogg type= kernel binPath= C:\Path\To\Driver\Nidhogg.sys
sc start nidhogg

Debugging

To debug the driver in your testing environment run this command with elevated cmd and reboot your computer:

bcdedit /debug on

After the reboot, you can see the debugging messages in tools such as DebugView.

Resources

Contributions

Thanks a lot to those people that contributed to this project:

BlackOfWorld

txtAnbu/Nidhogg