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Hidden

Hidden has been developed like a solution for reverse engineering and researching tasks. This is a windows driver with a usermode interface which is used for hiding specific environment on your windows machine, like installed RCE programs (ex. procmon, wireshark), vm infrastructure (ex. vmware tools) and etc.

Features

• hide registry keys and values
• hide files and directories
• hide processes (experimental, might be not stable)
• protect specific processes
• exclude specific processes from hiding and protection features
• usermode interface (lib and cli) for working with a driver

and so on

System requirements

Windows Vista and above, x86 and x64

Recommended build environment

• Visual Studio 2019
• Windows Driver Kit 10

Building

Following guide explains how to make a release win32 build

1. Open Hidden.sln using Visual Studio
2. Build Hidden Package project with configurations Release, Win32
3. Open build results folder <ProjectDir>\Release

Installing

1. Disable a digital signature enforcement on a test machine (bcdedit /set TESTSIGNING ON) and reboot it
2. Copy files from <ProjectDir>\Release\Hidden Package to a test machine
3. Right mouse click on Hidden.inf and choose Install
4. Start a driver (sc start hidden)
5. Make sure service is running (sc query hidden)

Important: Keep in mind that the driver bitness have to be the same to an OS bitness

Hiding

A command line tool hiddencli is used for managing a driver. You are able to use it for hiding and unhiding objects, changing a driver state and so on.

To hide a file try the command

hiddencli /hide file c:\Windows\System32\calc.exe

Want to hide a directory? No problems

hiddencli /hide dir "c:\Program Files\VMWare"

Registry key?

hiddencli /hide regkey "HKCU\Software\VMware, Inc."

Maybe a process?

hiddencli /hide pid 2340

By a process image name?

hiddencli /hide image apply:forall c:\Windows\Explorer.EXE

To get a full help just type

hiddencli /help