{"id":9030,"date":"2024-01-01T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2024-12-25T23:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T23:19:18","slug":"1-little-known-secret-of-hdwwiz-exe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/1-little-known-secret-of-hdwwiz-exe\/","title":{"rendered":"1 little known secret of hdwwiz.exe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a number of .cpl files that can be loaded using their OS-native executable equivalents f.ex <em>hdwwiz.exe<\/em> loads <em>hdwwiz.cpl<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, we can copy <em>hdwwiz.exe<\/em> to a different folder f.ex. c:\\test and load malicious <em>hdwwiz.cpl<\/em> from the very same location f.ex.:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hdwwiz_1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"446\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hdwwiz_1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hdwwiz_1.png 446w, https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hdwwiz_1-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a number of .cpl files that can be loaded using their OS-native executable equivalents f.ex hdwwiz.exe loads hdwwiz.cpl. As such, we can copy hdwwiz.exe to a different folder f.ex. c:\\test and load malicious hdwwiz.cpl from the very same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/1-little-known-secret-of-hdwwiz-exe\/\">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":[126,56,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030"}],"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=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9034,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions\/9034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}