{"id":4699,"date":"2018-03-26T22:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T22:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2018-03-26T22:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T22:22:27","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very obscure persistence mechanism that affects VMWare Tools versions that utilize the vm3dum DLL (&#8216;VMware SVGA 3D Usermode&#8217;):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>c:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\VMware\\Drivers\\video_wddm\\vm3dum.dll<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When loaded (which happens e.g. when Internet Explorer is launched) the DLL checks the content of the following registry key:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\VMware, Inc.\\VMware Tools\\Usermode\\<br \/>\nAdapterShimPath=&lt;path&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and loads library that the path points to.<\/p>\n<p>There is also one more key:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\VMware, Inc.\\VMware Tools\\Usermode\\<br \/>\nShimPath=&lt;path&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>but the condition for loading this DLL is not entirely clear to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very obscure persistence mechanism that affects VMWare Tools versions that utilize the vm3dum DLL (&#8216;VMware SVGA 3D Usermode&#8217;): c:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\VMware\\Drivers\\video_wddm\\vm3dum.dll When loaded (which happens e.g. when Internet Explorer is launched) the DLL checks the content of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-74\/\">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":[13,35,15,7,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699"}],"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=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}