EventPairHandles

Created the Monday 18 March 2019. Updated 7 months, 2 weeks ago.

An EventPair Object is an event constructed by two _KEVENT structures which are conventionally named High and Low.

There is a relation between generic Event Objects and Debuggers because they must create a custom event called DebugEvent able to handle exceptions. Due to the presence of events owned by the Debugger, every information relative to the events of a normal process differs from a debugged process.

Technique Identifier

U0116

Technique Tag

EventPairHandles

Code Snippets

#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include "defs.h"


#pragma comment(lib,"ntdll.lib")
#pragma comment(lib,"psapi.lib")


void QueryProcessHeapMethod(void)
{
    PDEBUG_BUFFER buffer;
    buffer = RtlCreateQueryDebugBuffer(0,FALSE);
    RtlQueryProcessHeapInformation(buffer);

    if (buffer->RemoteSectionBase == (PVOID) 0x50000062){
        MessageBoxA(NULL,"Debugged","Warning",MB_OK);
    }
    else {
        MessageBoxA(NULL,"Not Debugged","Warning",MB_OK);
    }
    if (buffer->EventPairHandle == (PVOID) 0x00002b98) {
        MessageBoxA(NULL,"Debugged","Warning",MB_OK);
    }
    else {
        MessageBoxA(NULL,"Not Debugged","Warning",MB_OK);
        printf("EventPairHandle= %x",(int)buffer->EventPairHandle);
    }
}
int main()
{
    QueryProcessHeapMethod();
    return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

Detection Rules

                                    rule Detect_EventPairHandles: AntiDebug {
    meta: 
        description = "Detect EventPairHandlesas anti-debug"
        author = "Unprotect"
        comment = "Experimental rule"
    strings:
        $1 = "EventPairHandles" fullword ascii
        $2 = "RtlCreateQueryDebugBuffer" fullword ascii
        $3 = "RtlQueryProcessHeapInformation" fullword ascii
    condition:   
       uint16(0) == 0x5A4D and filesize < 1000KB and 2 of them 
}

Additional Resources

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https://www.evilfingers.com/publications/research_EN/EventPairsHandle.pdf