Windows’ PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine Callbacks: the Good, the Bad and the Unclear (Part 2)

Windows, documentation, enSilo Breaking Malware

TL;DR: Security vendors and kernel developers beware – a programming error in the Windows kernel could prevent you from identifying which modules have been loaded at runtime. And the fix for it isn’t as foolproof as you would’ve hoped. 

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Windows’ PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine Callbacks: the Good, the Bad and the Unclear (Part 1)

Windows, documentation, enSilo Breaking Malware

TL;DR: Security vendors and kernel developers beware – a programming error in the Windows kernel could prevent you from identifying which modules have been loaded at runtime.

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Documenting the Undocumented: Adding CFG Exceptions

Windows, documentation, CFG, Control Flow Guard, NtSetInformationVirtualMemory, enSilo Breaking Malware

TL;DR Microsoft’s Control Flow Guard (CFG) is a security feature that prevents the abuse of indirect calls from calling addresses that are not marked as safe. CFG can cause problems for anyone trying to execute malicious memory manipulations on Windows. In such cases, this can be bypassed by adding an exception to the CFG bitmap (a mapping of

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