{"id":10302,"date":"2026-01-03T20:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=10302"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:08:27","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-155\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 155"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Leveraging popular software for persistence is a clever way to survive in heavily monitored environments of today. The last post discussed GhostScript, and today I will cover a popular gaming platform called GOG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Games using GOG use HKLM Registry configuration stored under keys listed below (this is a representative subset, obviously):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.com\\Games\\1207662533<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.com\\Games\\1207664543<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\Games\\1207664623<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.com\\Games\\1207665673<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGADVENTURESSHUGGY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGANODYNE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGDARKLANDS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGEARTH2140D<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGGOBLINS1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGGOBLINS1FDD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGGOBLINS2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGGOBLINS2FDD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGGOBLINS3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGGOBLINS3FDD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGINTERSTATE82<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGLAMULANA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGRETURNTOKRONDOR<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOFTWARE\\GOG.COM\\GOGT7G<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, that under these keys, there is a Registry ValueName called GOGGAMEDLL that points to a GOG DLL &#8211; and as you suspect, this entry can be potentially replaced by a proxy DLL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leveraging popular software for persistence is a clever way to survive in heavily monitored environments of today. The last post discussed GhostScript, and today I will cover a popular gaming platform called GOG. Games using GOG use HKLM Registry configuration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-155\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10310,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions\/10310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}