{"id":6850,"date":"2019-10-23T18:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2020-09-30T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:58:51","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/23\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-120\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 120"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a phantom DLL case on Windows 7 &#8211; funny bug in c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\spreview.exe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it starts it loads <em>wdscore.dll<\/em> library, but it does it incorrectly, and as a result it tries to load C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\spreview.exewdscore.dll file first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if you place such library on a system, anytime spreview is launched, the  spreview.exewdscore.dll  DLL will be loaded. It&#8217;s also a Lolbin, of cuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news &#8211; it&#8217;s used very rarely as it&#8217;s related to Service Pack installation. The better news &#8212; since spreview.exe is a part of a OS and signed, you could add it to any startup location and it will load that funnily-named DLL when it starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a phantom DLL case on Windows 7 &#8211; funny bug in c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\spreview.exe. When it starts it loads wdscore.dll library, but it does it incorrectly, and as a result it tries to load C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\spreview.exewdscore.dll file first. So, if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/23\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-120\/\">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":[13,35,56,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850"}],"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=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7467,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}