Hidden – Windows Driver With Usermode

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

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