SocketHook

This application allow the user to redirect any call to the windows API connect of any process in order to redirect its connection to the configured local port.

Get started

The hook was meant to be controlled by a REST API, thanks to this, any kind of application can "plug" to it and send inject directives. A WPF application using .NET Core 3.1 and the generic hosting APIs was made to show the potential of this architecture, you can see the code on this repository or download the release directly.

The API can either be started using regular CLI args or with a json configuration file on the working directory of the application (or with both). Here are two examples of json config files :

{
    "InjectToExe": "C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\SomeProgram.exe",
    "RedirectionPort": 8080,
    "RedirectedIps": [
      "xxx.xxx.xxx",
      "xxx.xxx.xxx"
    ]
}

{
    "InjectToPId": 17881,
    "RedirectionPort": 8080,
    "RedirectedIps": [
      "xxx.xxx.xxx",
      "xxx.xxx.xxx"
    ]
}

Also, if no InjectTo args are being provided, the application will bind a REST API (default port is 80) to the localhost in order to allow any user to triggers inject or createAndInject directive to the application. A killAll directive is also provided in order to kill all the process that might have been created within this injector instance. The route are defined this way :

• PUT http://127.0.0.1:80/api/createandinject?exePath=C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\SomeProgram.exe
  • with this json model in the request body.
• PUT http://127.0.0.1:80/api/inject?pId=17881
  • also with this json model in the request body.
• DELETE http://127.0.0.1:80/api/killall for the killAll directive

Go further

The WPF application takes advantage of the new .NET Core generic hosting APIs, therefore a library that provides interaction with the hook REST API and extensions methods to register thoses services into the commonly used IServiceCollection. This library is also available on nuget at this address.

The registration logic looks like this :

	services.AddSocketHook(opt =>
	{
		opt.AddConfiguration(ctx.Configuration);
		opt.Configure(x =>
		{
			x.UseHookServiceFactory = true;
			x.OpenHookOnStartup = true;
			x.KillAllOnExit = true;
		});
	});

And this will registers at least an ISocketHookServiceFactory which will be responsible of creating ISocketHookService instances with their relative InjectOptions.

The ISocketHookService provides 3 methods to interact with the hook API :

    public interface ISocketHookService
    {
        ValueTask<bool> TryCreateAndInject(string exePath, CancellationToken token = default);
        ValueTask<bool> TryInject(int pId, CancellationToken token = default);

        /// <exception cref="HttpRequestException" />
        ValueTask KillAllInjectedProcesses(CancellationToken token = default);
    }

Important

If you are experiencing any issue binding the HTTP server to your specified port please check this article from Microsoft : https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/dotnet/framework/wcf/feature-details/configuring-http-and-https?redirectedfrom=MSDN