Windows DLLs: Attacks in a Nutshell

What are DLLs? Dynamic-link Libraries (DLLs) are Microsoft’s implementation of shared code on the Windows Operating System. By means of modularizing code into smaller segments and individual files, Windows applications can utilize this shared code. This allows them to avoid including the same piece of code, again and again. Usually, the functions written in a DLL file are exportable. The DllMain function in a particular file carries out the basic tasks, whereas the individual functions can then be imported into code as well....

May 5, 2020 · 7 min · Syed Hasan