{"id":4681,"date":"2018-03-15T00:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2018-03-15T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:27:12","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/15\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a dvdplay.exe program on your system you can quickly do two things with it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use it to disturb the process tree<\/li>\n<li>leveraging the fact it is a signed binary &#8211; add it to any common startup place and achieve a nice, invisible persistence mechanism, possibly bypassing some security\u00a0 solutions (they will just detect entries pointing to a signed binary and nothing else)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p>The dvdplay.exe program is a simple wrapper that actually calls wmplayer.exe. But not the one you would expect.<\/p>\n<p>In order to find a path to the wmplayer, it reads the following Registry key:<\/p>\n<pre>HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\wmplayer.exe\r\n\"Path\"=\"c:\\\\malware\\\\\"<\/pre>\n<p>So&#8230; changing that path to any path in your control, you can drop your wmplayer.exe there and voila!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a dvdplay.exe program on your system you can quickly do two things with it: use it to disturb the process tree leveraging the fact it is a signed binary &#8211; add it to any common startup place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/15\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-73\/\">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":[13,35,15,52,19,46,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681"}],"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=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}