#include "common.h" std::wstring GetSymbolicLinkTarget(_In_ std::wstring symLinkName) { RAII::Hmodule ntdllModule = LoadLibraryW(L"ntdll.dll"); if (!ntdllModule.GetHmodule()) { std::cout << "(-) Couldn't open a handle to ntdll! Error: 0x" << std::hex << GetLastError() << std::endl; return L""; } pNtOpenSymbolicLinkObject NtOpenSymbolicLinkObject = (pNtOpenSymbolicLinkObject)GetProcAddress(ntdllModule.GetHmodule(), "NtOpenSymbolicLinkObject"); if (!NtOpenSymbolicLinkObject) { std::cout << "(-) Couldn't resolve NtOpenSymbolicLinkObject address! Error: 0x" << std::hex << GetLastError() << std::endl; return L""; } pNtQuerySymbolicLinkObject NtQuerySymbolicLinkObject = (pNtQuerySymbolicLinkObject)GetProcAddress(ntdllModule.GetHmodule(), "NtQuerySymbolicLinkObject"); if (!NtQuerySymbolicLinkObject) { std::cout << "(-) Couldn't resolve NtQuerySymbolicLinkObject address! Error: 0x" << std::hex << GetLastError() << std::endl; return L""; } // build OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES structure to reference and then delete the permanent symbolic link to the driver path UNICODE_STRING symlinkPath; RtlInitUnicodeString(&symlinkPath, symLinkName.c_str()); OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES symlinkObjAttr{}; InitializeObjectAttributes(&symlinkObjAttr, &symlinkPath, OBJ_KERNEL_HANDLE, NULL, NULL); HANDLE tempSymLinkHandle; NTSTATUS status = NtOpenSymbolicLinkObject(&tempSymLinkHandle, GENERIC_READ, &symlinkObjAttr); RAII::Handle symLinkHandle = tempSymLinkHandle; UNICODE_STRING LinkTarget{}; wchar_t buffer[MAX_PATH] = { L'\0' }; LinkTarget.Buffer = buffer; LinkTarget.Length = 0; LinkTarget.MaximumLength = MAX_PATH; status = NtQuerySymbolicLinkObject(symLinkHandle.GetHandle(), &LinkTarget, nullptr); if (!NT_SUCCESS(status)) { Error(RtlNtStatusToDosError(status)); std::wcout << L"(-) Couldn't get the target of the symbolic link " << symLinkName << std::endl; return L""; } else std::wcout << "(+) Symbolic link target is: " << LinkTarget.Buffer << std::endl; return LinkTarget.Buffer; }