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Written by:
Eugene Wineblat,
Senior Developer of Network Security Team,
Apriorit Inc. http://www.apriorit.com

Content:

1. Introduction
2. List of services
   1. services.exe
   2. Signatures
   3. Structure of SERVICE_RECORD
   4. Life After The Windows Vista
3. Patching
   1. Search of signatures
   2. Service hiding
   3. Correct restoration
4. Structure of the project files
5. References

1. Introduction

In this article we continue investigation in the field of hiding application in the system. This theme was started by Ivan Romanenko and Sergey Popenko in the article “Driver to Hide Processes and Files”. Our aim is to discover the ways of application hiding in the system for the wide audience. The approaches described can be used in the Corporate Security systems development – to hide system agents and prevent switching them off by users. Information can be also useful for those who research harmful software – to build the adequate answer for the threats.

This article will tell where Windows OS stores the services and how uses them. We’ll discuss how this knowledge can be applied to finding our custom service and hiding it.

So let’s start our research.

2. List of services

At the first step of my research I thought that if there were services then somewhere their manager had to be. And it discovered to be true – such manager is in the