Change Module Base Address at Runtime

Created the Monday 18 July 2022. Updated 1 year, 2 months ago.

It is possible to change the DllBase of a module at runtime. This can trick debugging and analysis tools such as IDA or Cheat Engine into thinking a module's base is actually at another address.

This is achieved by accessing the process PEB's member 'Ldr', in particular it has a member InOrderMemoryLinks which we can iterate through to get a list of the process's modules. On each iteration we get a PLDR_DATA_TABLE_ENTRY structure to work with which contains a member PVOID DllBase, that can be overwritten with the new module base address.


Technique Identifier

U1239


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