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Topic created on: May 7, 2009 01:20 CDT by coolads .

I have written a driver for XP SP2 that dumps the memory of an unpacking process at a particular system call. For dumping memory, I invoke ZwReadVirtualMemory system call. But, zeros are read at memory location where the unpacked code resides in memory, when in fact code in that section itself is being executed. Amazingly, when the process is run inside ollydebugger, it does dump the code section of the unpacking code. Can anyone explain this behavior and a possible solution to this problem?

Thanks...

  cod     May 7, 2009 01:40.37 CDT
You can get a codesnippet from sysinternals forum
http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=6510

  coolads     May 7, 2009 01:55.46 CDT
Thanks for the info ...
But I have managed to get the ZwReadVirtualMemory to work. It works fine and I am able to correctly read most of the commited memory pages from my kernel driver.  However, for text section of unpacked code, zeros are read. But if I run the same process through debugger, it reads the pages correctly. What could be the problem?


> cod: You can get a codesnippet from sysinternals forum
> http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=6510

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