I am trying to write a DLL injector to perform a DLL injector on a calculator process.
I wrote the DLL injector program in C and the DLL but the injector dosent inject the DLL or any other DLL (I tried to take some random windows DLL that the calculator doesn't use).
#include <stdio.h>
#include <Windows.h>
int main() {
LPCSTR dllpath = "C:\\Users\\......\\Dll1.dll";
printf("#### Starting ####\n");
printf("step 1: attaching the target process memory\n");
HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(
PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS,
FALSE,
6456 // target process id
);
if (hProcess != NULL) {
printf("step 2: allocate the target memory process\n");
LPVOID dllPathMemoryAddr = VirtualAllocEx(
hProcess,
NULL,
strlen(dllpath),
MEM_RESERVE | MEM_COMMIT,
PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE
);
if (dllPathMemoryAddr != NULL) {
printf("step 3: write to the process memory\n");
BOOL succeededWriting = WriteProcessMemory(
hProcess,
dllPathMemoryAddr,
dllpath,
strlen(dllpath),
NULL
);
if (succeededWriting) {
printf("step 4: execute.\n");
FARPROC loadLibAddr = GetProcAddress(
GetModuleHandle(TEXT("kernel32.dll")),
"LoadLibraryA"
);
HANDLE rThread = CreateRemoteThread(
hProcess,
NULL,
0,
(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)loadLibAddr,
dllPathMemoryAddr,
0,
NULL
);
}
}
CloseHandle(hProcess);
}
return TRUE;
}
after running the injector I get this output:
#### Starting ####
step 1: attaching the target process memory
step 2: allocate the target memory process
step 3: write to the process memory
step 4: execute.
after that, I am still unable to see in process explorer the new DLL.
I found the problem. I compiled the DLL as 64 but accidentally compiled the DLL injector has complied as 32 bit.