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date: 2015-11-19

Download and extract to %windir%\system32 listdlls.exe from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896656.aspx

open notepad protected by emet5.5, note the pid from task manager or emet console.

run following command, changing pid for one noted
c:\Windows\System32>Listdlls.exe [PID] > z:\emetProtectedNotepad.txt

remove the emet protection by deleteing notepad from apps list in emet console.
rerun the following command after closing notepad and restarting it noting the new pid and using in following command.
c:\Windows\System32>Listdlls.exe [PID] > z:\notProtectedNotepad.txt

Open the two files in winmerge highlights the following dlls different.

 C:\Windows\system32\apphelp.dll  334kb
 C:\Windows\AppPatch\AppPatch64\EMET64.dll  1053kb

will assume that the following is for 32bit apps;

 C:\Windows\AppPatch\EMET.dll 745kb

Now open visual studio developer command window.
run;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0>dumpbin /export C:\Windows\system32\apphelp.dll > “z:\Emet Reverse engineering\apphelpdll.dumpbin.txt”

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0>dumpbin /exports C:\Windows\AppPatch\AppPatch64\EMET64.dll > “z:\Emet Reverse engineering\EMET64.dumpbin.txt”

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0>dumpbin /exports C:\Windows\AppPatch\EMET.dll > “z:\Emet Reverse engineering\EMET.dumpbin.txt”

These files list the following;

Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.00.23026.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Dump of file C:\Windows\system32\apphelp.dll

File Type: DLL

  Section contains the following exports for apphelp.dll

    00000000 characteristics
    56324A6A time date stamp Thu Oct 29 16:33:46 2015
        0.00 version
           1 ordinal base
         195 number of functions
         195 number of names

    ordinal hint RVA      name

          1    0 0001C07C AllowPermLayer
          2    1 00011574 ApphelpCheckExe
          3    2 0001A3D0 ApphelpCheckIME
          4    3 0001A8B0 ApphelpCheckInstallShieldPackage
          5    4 000073C0 ApphelpCheckModule
          6    5 0001AC4C ApphelpCheckMsiPackage
          7    6 0001A810 ApphelpCheckRunApp
          8    7 0000B3F0 ApphelpCheckRunAppEx
          9    8 0000726C ApphelpCheckShellObject
         10    9 00001010 ApphelpCreateAppcompatData
         11    A 0001AF90 ApphelpFixMsiPackage
         12    B 0001B274 ApphelpFixMsiPackageExe
         13    C 0001C5B4 ApphelpFreeFileAttributes
         14    D 0001C5A8 ApphelpGetFileAttributes
         15    E 0001BB98 ApphelpGetMsiProperties
         16    F 0001A3F8 ApphelpGetNTVDMInfo
         17   10 0001C5DC ApphelpGetShimDebugLevel
         18   11 0001BD00 ApphelpParseModuleData
         19   12 0001BCD0 ApphelpQueryModuleData
         20   13 0001BE78 ApphelpQueryModuleDataEx
         21   14 0001C578 ApphelpShowDialog
         22   15 0001C1D8 ApphelpUpdateCacheEntry
         23   16 0001C528 GetPermLayers
         24   17 00006A18 SE_DllLoaded
         25   18 000017C4 SE_DllUnloaded
         26   19 0001CF90 SE_DynamicShim
         27   1A 0001D020 SE_GetHookAPIs
         28   1B 0001D190 SE_GetMaxShimCount
         29   1C 0001CDB8 SE_GetProcAddressIgnoreIncExc
         30   1D 0001CE10 SE_GetProcAddressLoad
         31   1E 0001D1A0 SE_GetShimCount
         32   1F 00001820 SE_InstallAfterInit
         33   20 00005C7C SE_InstallBeforeInit
         34   21 00005978 SE_IsShimDll
         35   22 0000980C SE_LdrEntryRemoved
         36   23 00001C94 SE_ProcessDying
         37   24 0001F958 SdbAddLayerTagRefToQuery
         38   25 00021AAC SdbApphelpNotify
         39   26 000219B0 SdbApphelpNotifyEx
         40   27 000218E0 SdbApphelpNotifyEx2
         41   28 000237F8 SdbBeginWriteListTag
         42   29 000270B0 SdbBuildCompatEnvVariables
         43   2A 00022554 SdbCloseApphelpInformation
         44   2B 0000F680 SdbCloseDatabase
         45   2C 000242E8 SdbCloseDatabaseWrite
         46   2D 00027DCC SdbCloseLocalDatabase
         47   2E 00024650 SdbCommitIndexes
         48   2F 00023584 SdbCreateDatabase
         49   30 00022EEC SdbCreateHelpCenterURL
         50   31 00028B64 SdbCreateMsiTransformFile
         51   32 000242F4 SdbDeclareIndex
         52   33 000253B8 SdbDeletePermLayerKeys
         53   34 000278E0 SdbDumpSearchPathPartCaches
         54   35 00023870 SdbEndWriteListTag
         55   36 0002867C SdbEnumMsiTransforms
         56   37 00021DD0 SdbEscapeApphelpURL
         57   38 00028EF4 SdbFindCustomActionForPackage
         58   39 000290E0 SdbFindFirstDWORDIndexedTag
         59   3A 00028FD8 SdbFindFirstGUIDIndexedTag
         60   3B 000284F0 SdbFindFirstMsiPackage
         61   3C 00028464 SdbFindFirstMsiPackage_Str
         62   3D 00029410 SdbFindFirstNamedTag
         63   3E 0000D1F0 SdbFindFirstStringIndexedTag
         64   3F 000035E0 SdbFindFirstTag
         65   40 0000B2C0 SdbFindFirstTagRef
         66   41 00028E6C SdbFindMsiPackageByID
         67   42 000291A4 SdbFindNextDWORDIndexedTag
         68   43 000290A4 SdbFindNextGUIDIndexedTag
         69   44 00028560 SdbFindNextMsiPackage
         70   45 00002910 SdbFindNextStringIndexedTag
         71   46 00003B98 SdbFindNextTag
         72   47 000071C0 SdbFindNextTagRef
         73   48 00010C04 SdbFormatAttribute
         74   49 00027720 SdbFreeDatabaseInformation
         75   4A 00010A50 SdbFreeFileAttributes
         76   4B 00007610 SdbFreeFileInfo
         77   4C 0001E914 SdbFreeFlagInfo
         78   4D 00029A70 SdbGUIDFromString
         79   4E 00002CC8 SdbGUIDToString
         80   4F 000257D4 SdbGetAppCompatDataSize
         81   50 000257C0 SdbGetAppPatchDir
         82   51 0000EAA0 SdbGetBinaryTagData
         83   52 0001E81C SdbGetDatabaseGUID
         84   53 0000F7B8 SdbGetDatabaseID
         85   54 00007EE0 SdbGetDatabaseInformation
         86   55 00027740 SdbGetDatabaseInformationByName
         87   56 00029EDC SdbGetDatabaseMatch
         88   57 000275E0 SdbGetDatabaseVersion
         89   58 0000EE40 SdbGetDllPath
         90   59 00010708 SdbGetEntryFlags
         91   5A 00010EE0 SdbGetFileAttributes
         92   5B 000297B0 SdbGetFileImageType
         93   5C 000298FC SdbGetFileImageTypeEx
         94   5D 0000523C SdbGetFileInfo
         95   5E 00006984 SdbGetFirstChild
         96   5F 00027910 SdbGetImageType
         97   60 00006D0C SdbGetIndex
         98   61 0000E940 SdbGetItemFromItemRef
         99   62 00026FE8 SdbGetLayerName
        100   63 0001F550 SdbGetLayerTagRef
        101   64 0001E7D8 SdbGetLocalPDB
        102   65 0001F820 SdbGetMatchingExe
        103   66 00028CD8 SdbGetMsiPackageInformation
        104   67 0001F4CC SdbGetNamedLayer
        105   68 00005A50 SdbGetNextChild
        106   69 0000F33C SdbGetNthUserSdb
        107   6A 0000F1BC SdbGetPDBFromGUID
        108   6B 000089F0 SdbGetPermLayerKeys
        109   6C 00009D1C SdbGetShowDebugInfoOption
        110   6D 00020268 SdbGetShowDebugInfoOptionValue
        111   6E 000267B0 SdbGetStandardDatabaseGUID
        112   6F 00007FB0 SdbGetStringTagPtr
        113   70 00003020 SdbGetTagDataSize
        114   71 000094C0 SdbGetTagFromTagID
        115   72 0002B7B0 SdbGrabMatchingInfo
        116   73 0002B7DC SdbGrabMatchingInfoEx
        117   74 0001BC60 SdbInitDatabase
        118   75 000076B0 SdbInitDatabaseEx
        119   76 0000FD50 SdbIsNullGUID
        120   77 00026734 SdbIsStandardDatabase
        121   78 0001E804 SdbIsTagrefFromLocalDB
        122   79 0001E7EC SdbIsTagrefFromMainDB
        123   7A 0002039C SdbLoadString
        124   7B 00002A30 SdbMakeIndexKeyFromString
        125   7C 00021FE0 SdbOpenApphelpDetailsDatabase
        126   7D 00022084 SdbOpenApphelpDetailsDatabaseSP
        127   7E 00022318 SdbOpenApphelpInformation
        128   7F 000221C4 SdbOpenApphelpInformationByID
        129   80 0002049C SdbOpenApphelpResourceFile
        130   81 000095C8 SdbOpenDatabase
        131   82 000202B0 SdbOpenDbFromGuid
        132   83 00027D9C SdbOpenLocalDatabase
        133   84 00008534 SdbPackAppCompatData
        134   85 00022824 SdbQueryApphelpInformation
        135   86 0001EAC4 SdbQueryBlockUpgrade
        136   87 00001CCC SdbQueryContext
        137   88 0002A09C SdbQueryData
        138   89 0002A704 SdbQueryDataEx
        139   8A 0002A0CC SdbQueryDataExTagID
        140   8B 0001E8D0 SdbQueryFlagInfo
        141   8C 0000B1E0 SdbQueryFlagMask
        142   8D 0002BF08 SdbQueryName
        143   8E 0001EB60 SdbQueryReinstallUpgrade
        144   8F 00002090 SdbReadApphelpData
        145   90 00020B88 SdbReadApphelpDetailsData
        146   91 00029AAC SdbReadBYTETag
        147   92 00029B54 SdbReadBYTETagRef
        148   93 0000F864 SdbReadBinaryTag
        149   94 0000EA28 SdbReadDWORDTag
        150   95 00029C20 SdbReadDWORDTagRef
        151   96 0002A7F0 SdbReadEntryInformation
        152   97 00028850 SdbReadMsiTransformInfo
        153   98 00027EB0 SdbReadPatchBits
        154   99 00010280 SdbReadQWORDTag
        155   9A 00010230 SdbReadQWORDTagRef
        156   9B 0000E838 SdbReadStringTag
        157   9C 0000E7E0 SdbReadStringTagRef
        158   9D 00002D90 SdbReadWORDTag
        159   9E 00029BB8 SdbReadWORDTagRef
        160   9F 00026580 SdbRegisterDatabase
        161   A0 00025ED8 SdbRegisterDatabaseEx
        162   A1 00007598 SdbReleaseDatabase
        163   A2 0001FAE0 SdbReleaseMatchingExe
        164   A3 00026A94 SdbResolveDatabase
        165   A4 00022700 SdbSetApphelpDebugParameters
        166   A5 000256A8 SdbSetEntryFlags
        167   A6 00027920 SdbSetImageType
        168   A7 00024DBC SdbSetPermLayerKeys
        169   A8 00021BD0 SdbShowApphelpDialog
        170   A9 0000E53C SdbShowApphelpFromQuery
        171   AA 0002469C SdbStartIndexing
        172   AB 000246C0 SdbStopIndexing
        173   AC 0001EFC8 SdbStringDuplicate
        174   AD 0001F088 SdbStringReplace
        175   AE 0001F2D4 SdbStringReplaceArray
        176   AF 0000B350 SdbTagIDToTagRef
        177   B0 0000A6D0 SdbTagRefToTagID
        178   B1 00010B58 SdbTagToString
        179   B2 0000F08C SdbUnpackAppCompatData
        180   B3 00026590 SdbUnregisterDatabase
        181   B4 00023A38 SdbWriteBYTETag
        182   B5 00023BD8 SdbWriteBinaryTag
        183   B6 00023C14 SdbWriteBinaryTagFromFile
        184   B7 00023AD0 SdbWriteDWORDTag
        185   B8 000239F8 SdbWriteNULLTag
        186   B9 00023B1C SdbWriteQWORDTag
        187   BA 00023E30 SdbWriteStringRefTag
        188   BB 00023B68 SdbWriteStringTag
        189   BC 00023E7C SdbWriteStringTagDirect
        190   BD 00023A84 SdbWriteWORDTag
        191   BE 0001C534 SetPermLayerState
        192   BF 0001C4BC SetPermLayers
        193   C0 000096CC ShimDbgPrint
        194   C1 0001C5D0 ShimDumpCache
        195   C2 0001C5C0 ShimFlushCache

  Summary

        4000 .data
        3000 .pdata
       14000 .rdata
        1000 .reloc
        9000 .rsrc
       31000 .text

Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.00.23026.0

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Dump of file C:\Windows\AppPatch\AppPatch64\EMET64.dll

File Type: DLL

  Section contains the following exports for EMET64.dll

    00000000 characteristics

    55F897DF time date stamp Tue Sep 15 23:12:47 2015

        0.00 version

           1 ordinal base

           3 number of functions

           3 number of names

    ordinal hint RVA      name

          1    0 00086AB0 EMETSendCert

          2    1 000481B0 GetHookAPIs

          3    2 00048140 NotifyShims

  Summary

       20000 .data

       20000 .detourc

       20000 .detourd

       20000 .didat

       20000 .pdata

       80000 .rdata

       20000 .reloc

       20000 .rsrc

       80000 .text

Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.00.23026.0

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Dump of file C:\Windows\AppPatch\EMET.dll

File Type: DLL

  Section contains the following exports for EMET.dll

    00000000 characteristics

    55F8975B time date stamp Tue Sep 15 23:10:35 2015

        0.00 version

           1 ordinal base

           3 number of functions

           3 number of names

    ordinal hint RVA      name

          1    0 00060F20 EMETSendCert

          2    1 00028B30 GetHookAPIs

          3    2 00028AE0 NotifyShims

  Summary

       20000 .data

       20000 .detourc

       20000 .detourd

       20000 .didat

       60000 .rdata

       20000 .reloc

       20000 .rsrc

       60000 .text

We haven’t discovered too much here but one could try including the .dll into a console app to try and reveal more or disassemble it to pseudo c code.

Once that’s done one might understand the hooks and detours used to ruin an exploits day.