# WindowsRegistryRootkit

**Repository Path**: mirrors_Cr4sh/WindowsRegistryRootkit

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: WindowsRegistryRootkit
- **Description**: Kernel rootkit, that lives inside the Windows registry values data
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-01-11
- **Last Updated**: 2026-04-13

## Categories & Tags

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## README


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  Kernel rootkit, that lives inside the Windows registry value data.  
  By Oleksiuk Dmytro (aka Cr4sh)  
  
  http://twitter.com/d_olex  
  http://blog.cr4.sh  
  cr4sh0@gmail.com  

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Rootkit uses the zero day vulnerability in win32k.sys (buffer overflow in function win32k!bInitializeEUDC()) to get the execution at the OS startup.
 
Features:
 
 * NDIS-based network backdoor (+ meterpreter/bind_tcp).
  
 * In order to avoid unknown executable code detection it moves itself in the memory over discardable sections of some default Windows drivers.
    
 * Completely undetectable by public anti-rootkit tools.
  
 * Working on Windows 7 (SP0, SP1) x86.


 ![diagram](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cr4sh/blog/master/windows-registry-rootkit/WindowsRegistryRootkit-execution.png)

 
This rootkit was originally presented at the ZeroNights 2012 conference during my talk.  
See the slides and videos for more information: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cr4sh/blog/master/windows-registry-rootkit/Applied-anti-forensics.pdf