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Learning Malware Analysis
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Learning Malware Analysis

by Monnappa K A
June 2018
Beginner
510 pages
13h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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3.4 DLL Injection Using The Application Compatibility Shim

The Microsoft Windows application compatibility infrastructure/framework (application shim) is a feature that allows programs created for older versions of the operating system (such as Windows XP) to work with modern versions of the operating system (such as Windows 7 or Windows 10). This is achieved through application compatibility fixes (shims). The shims are provided by Microsoft to the developers so that they can apply fixes to their programs without rewriting the code. When a shim is applied to a program, and when the shimmed program is executed, the shim engine redirects the API call made by the shimmed program to shim code; this is done by replacing the pointer in the IAT ...

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