PINdemonium - A pintool in order to unpack malware

项目说明

PINdemonium

An unpacker for windows executables exploiting the capabilities of PIN.

Dependencies

* PIN

* Scylla

* studio 2010

Installation

1. Download the linked of PIN

2. Unzip PIN to the root directory and rename the folder to pin

3. Clone this repository

4. Extract the archive in PINdemonium/ScyllaDependencies/diStorm.rar into PINdemonium/Scylla/

5. Extract the archive in PINdemonium/ScyllaDependencies/tinyxml.rar into PINdemonium/Scylla/

6. Extract the archive in PINdemonium/ScyllaDependencies/WTL.rar into PINdemonium/Scylla/

5. Open the file PinUnpacker.sln with Studio 2010 ( NB: The is mandatory )

6. Create a folder C:\\pin and copy the folders PINdemonium\PINdemoniumDependencies and PINdemonium\PINdemoniumResults in C:\pin\\

7. Be sure that you are compiling in Release mode

8. Be sure that all the module inside the project are compiled using the platform toolset v100 ( you can see this with right click on the module -> Properties -> platform toolset field )

9. Compile the solution

10. Optional : Create a folder called PINdemoniumPlugins in C:\pin\\

Usage

1. Run this command from the directory C:\pin\\

Flags :
- -iwae <number_of_jump_to_dump> : specify if you want or not to track the inter_write_set analysis dumps and how many jump

- -poly-patch: if the binary you are analyzing has some kind of polymorphic behavior this activate the patch in order to avoid pin to execute the wrong trace.

- -plugin <name_of_the_plugin>: specify if you want to call a custom plugin if the IAT-fix fails (more information on in the Plugin system section).

2. Check your result in C:\pin\PINdemoniumResults\\< current_date_and_time >\\

Plugin System

PINdemonium provides a plugin system in order to extend the functionalities of the IAT fixing module.

To write your own plugin you have to:

1. Copy the sample project called PINdemoniumPluginTemplate located in PINdemonium\PINdemoniumPlugins\\ wherever you want.

2. Change the name of the project with a name of your choice

3. Implement the function runPlugin

4. Compile the project

5. Copy the compiled Dll in C:\pin\PINdemoniumPlugins

6. Launch PINdemonium with the flag plugin acti by your plugin name (EX : -plugin PINdemoniumStolenAPIPlugin.dll)

Inside the template two helper function are provided:

readMemoryFromProcess : this function reads the memory from the specified process, at the specified address and copies the read bytes into a buffer

writeMemoryToProcess : this function writes the bytes contained inside a specified buffer into the process memory starting from a specified address

Yara Rules

Every time a dump is taken yara is invoked and the rules contained inside C:\pin\PINdemoniumDependencies\Yara\yara_rules.yar are checked. The current rule comes from
- rules\e : Try to identify anti techniques and the presence of a known packer
- rules\malware: Try to identify the malware family of the unpacked stage

Config

Config file located at C:\pin\PINdemoniumDependencies\config.json contains which allow to set the location of the outputs

Results

Results are located at C:\pin\PINdemoniumResults\\< current_date_and_time >\\ and contains:

report_PINdemonium: Json file which contains the most important information about the unpacking process;

log_PINdemonium.txt: Log which contains useful debugging information

Report Structure

Thanks

This work has been possible thanks to:

1. NtQuery/Scylla

2. Yara-Rules/rules

3. /yara

项目信息

开发语言：C++

Star 数：240

技术要点

该项目属于病毒分析方向的开源资源，代码结构清晰，适合安全研究人员学习参考。项目围绕A pintool in order to unpack malware展开，提供了可运行的实现，对理解相关安全机制、工具原理与攻防技术具有较高的研究价值。

从技术实现角度看，此类项目的核心在于对底层原理的深入理解与工程化落地。开发者在研究过程中可以结合官方文档与社区讨论，梳理项目的初始化流程、核心模块职责与数据流转，逐步掌握其中的技术细节与设计思路。

使用与学习建议

1. 下载源码压缩包，解压到本地环境。

2. 根据项目类型准备对应的运行环境与依赖。

3. 按照 README 中的步骤完成配置与部署。

4. 在隔离的测试环境中运行验证，避免影响生产系统。

免责声明

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