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James Moriarty
June 16, 2021
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Writing My First Exploit
Exploit? “...is a piece of software, a chunk of data,
or a sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior...” Wikipedia
What? Counter-Strike: Global Offensive • Source code leak from 2013
for reference. ◦ github.com/ValveSoftware/source-... • Lots of existing exploit examples. ◦ github.com/search?q=dwLocalPlaye...
“Steel-thread” Implementation • “Out of Box” win32 APIs to exploit
the client side process. ◦ read/write with kernel32.dll ◦ input with with user32.dll • “Benign” exploit impact. ◦ client side jump abuse aka “bunny hop”
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How
How?
How func RunHop(client *Client) { for { if gomem.IsKeyDown(VK_SPACE) {
flags, _ := client.Process.ReadByte(...) if (flags & CSGO_FL_ONGROUND) > 0 { client.Process.WriteByte(...) } } time.Sleep(100 * time.Nanosecond) } }
Binary Compatibility Address E.g. 0x59bc2690 Memory E.g. 00001000 ReadByte
Binary Compatibility 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.2 csgo.exe gohack.exe
Broken Broken
Binary Compatibility 1.0 1.X w/ auto update 1.1 1.2 csgo.exe
gohack.exe
How func Instrument() (*gohack.Client, error) { ... offsets, err :=
gohack.GetOffsets() ... process, err := gomem.GetOpenProcessFromName("csgo.exe") ... client, err := gohack.GetClientFrom(process, offsets) ... return client, err }
Testing
Testing Value’s CS:GO • 30GB Package • Steam DRM +
VAC Anti-cheat • GUI + Internet • A popular game My CS:GO • 42KB Binary • 14 LOC • Headless + Offline • Loads a DLL and hangs
Testing func TestStubProcess(t *testing.T) { withProcess("test\\dll\\csgo.exe", func() { _, err
:= Instrument() got := err.Error() want := "Failed to get player offset" if got != want { t.Errorf("%q; want %q", got, want) } }) }
Testing
github.com/jamesmoriarty/gohack
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None
Testing func TestProcessReadUInt32(t *testing.T) { ... valuePtr := (uintptr)(unsafe.Pointer(&value)) ...
process, err := GetOpenProcessFromName(name) ... assertValue, err := process.ReadUInt32(valuePtr) ... }
github.com/jamesmoriarty/gomem
jamesmoriarty.xyz/software/
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