Showing posts with label Exception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exception. Show all posts

Friday, April 11, 2014

Yet Another Solution to Monitor/Trap SYSCALL with Virtualization Technology (x86)

This article describes an idea to monitor SYSCALL with x86 Hardware Virtualization Technology. It doesn't require visible guest code/data modification, so that in some cases, even Kernel Patch Protection (e.g. Windows x64 PatchGuard) cannot detect it. Here the SYSCALL could also be SYSENTER or INT 80h for system calls.