dawn/dev_tools/TOOLS.md

Tools

This file lists useful applications to debug and modify the game code.

Helpful articles:

• https://www.apriorit.com/dev-blog/367-anti-reverse-engineering-protection-techniques-to-use-before-releasing-software
• https://blog.usejournal.com/reverse-engineering-of-a-mobile-game-part-2-they-updated-we-dumped-memory-27046efdfb85

General tips before starting

1. Rename or replace "upload_crash.exe", just to make sure
2. Add the logging servers to your /etc/hosts file (see network.md)

Misc

Small tools that might come handy.

• vbindiff - Binary difference viewer
• xdelta3 - Binary patch generator (cross-platform)
  • Make patch: -e -s ORIG MOD PATCH.vcdiff
  • Apply patch: -d -s BAK PATCH.vcdiff MOD
• PE Tools - File header editor
  • Change and enlarge executable code sections
  • Alternative: Ghidra's "Memory Map" dialogue

Ghidra

Use: Decompile and patch UnityPlayer.dll, C code preview

Link: https://ghidra-sre.org/

Hints:

• Hotkey "G": Jump to address
• Hotkey "Ctrl+Shift+G": Patch instruction
  • Add labels to addresses for JMP/LEA autocompletion
• Export modified dll as PE/Win32
• Script "EditBytesScript.java": Edit bytes directly, assign a shortcut
• "Memory Map": Edit PE headers to append code to free spots in/after the file

Il2CppInspector

Use: decrypted global-metadata.dat + UserAssembly.dll => debug information

Link: https://github.com/djkaty/Il2CppInspector

Hints:

• GUI does currently not work in Wine
• WINEDEBUG=-all wine Il2CppInspector-cli.exe -m global-metadata.dat -i UserAssembly.dll -t Ghidra --unity-version 2017.4.30f1
• Requires at least 2.5 GiB free RAM
• Takes a LOOOONG TIME to execute
  • Generate C# code: 2'296.42 sec
• May be used to import into Ghidra or IDA Pro

Il2CppDumper (fork)

A fork of the Il2CppInspector subcomponent.

Link: https://github.com/kagurazakasanae/Il2CppDumper-YuanShen

Hints:

• Creates dump.cs for manual lookup
  • VA: 0x18xxxxxxx is the virtual memory address
• Fails to generate data for direct Ghidra import

Cheat Engine (CE)

Use: Set breakpoints, rudimentary backtraces

Link: https://www.cheatengine.org/downloads.php

Only works partially on Linux!

Partially broken as of v3.3.0

Required settings:

• Edit -> Settings -> Debugger Options
  • Use "VEH Debugger"
  • Use "Page exceptions" (optional, only specifies the defaults)

Optional: copy & paste the x86_64 binary and rename it. That might avoid detection.

"Debug" instructions:

1. Run GI in suspend mode -> PowerShell script
   • Linux: use suspend_start utility exe
2. CE: Open process GenshinImpact using "Attach to process"
3. "Memory View"
4. Go to address. (Ctrl+G) -> "UnityPlayer.dll+(7 hex chars ¹)"
5. Set Exception breakpoint
6. When mhyprot2 is running, suspend_start cannot stop the application any more.
   • Try Process Hacker (as admin) -> "Resume"
7. Hope that the breakpoint works and check the backtrace

¹) The 7 digits correspond to the virtual memory offset, but with the first byte removed. 0x181234567 becomes 0x1234567

x64dbg

Use: Debug processes, disassebling and memory modifications

Link: https://x64dbg.com/

Currently does not work in Wine

Anti-anti-debug: (thanks to 0x90, POL thread)

• Standard PEB check (IsDebuggerPresent() etc)
  • gs:[60]+2 = 0 (x64 BeingDebugged flag)
  • gs:[60]+bc = 0 (x64 mask 0x70 indicates debugging)
• CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent
  • RDX = 0
  • RCX = 0
• NtQueryInformationProcess -> RDX = 0x7 // RDX = 0x1e
• NtClose -> RCX = 0xDEADCODE
• NtSetInformationThread -> RDX = 0x11

Alternatively: ScyllaHide plugin

• Even when attaching to a process using the plugin, it is still detected as a debugger. Solutions?

Alternatively: TitanHide (see Issue#7 for binaries)

• I cannot get this to run. Maybe you can get better results.

mitmproxy

Use: Capture all TCP/TLS data

Link: https://mitmproxy.org/

Hints:

1. Run mitmdump -w output_file.mitm (regular user is okay)
2. export {http,https,ftp}_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8080"
   • Windows: Change the network adaptor settings to use your IP as proxy
3. Run Genshin Impact
4. Replay logs: mitmproxy -nr output_file.mitm

dnstop

Use: Capture DNS lookups for packets that mitmproxy cannot catch

1. dnstop -l 4 NETDEVNAME
2. Hotkey 4 for deeper domain resolving

Other attempts

Linux CLI

WINEDEBUG=+relay

Wine 5.19, UnityPlayer 1.0.1:

Backtrace:
=>0 0x000000007b638000 EntryPoint+0x3a0() in kernel32 (0x00000000050cfe58)
  1 0x00000001808637b8 EntryPoint+0xfeae9208() in unityplayer (0x00000000050cfe58)
  2 0x000000007b631e09 EntryPoint+0xffffffffffffffff() in kernel32 (0x00000000050cfe58)
  3 0x000000007bc4b5cf EntryPoint+0xffffffffffffffff() in ntdll (0x00000000050cfe58)
  4 0x000000007b601b66 EntryPoint+0xffffffffffffffff() in kernel32 (0x0000000000000000)
  5 0x000000007bc5e9b3 EntryPoint+0xffffffffffffffff() in ntdll (0x0000000000000000)
0x000000007b638000 EntryPoint+0x3a0 in kernel32: addb   (%rax),%al

winedbg

Detected as debugger

gdb --args wine ...

Cannot debug due to SIGTRAP being spammed on purpose.

Process stalls when SIGTRAP is ignored:

handle SIGTRAP nostop
handle SIGTRAP noprint