APIHijack – A Library for Easy DLL Function Hooking.

Based on DelayLoadProfileDLL.CPP, by Matt Pietrek for MSJ February 2000. This code is intended to be included in a DLL inserted through a global Windows Hook (CBT hook for example). It will replace functions from other DLLs (e.g. DDRAW.DLL) with functions from your DLL.

Functions are hooked by passing a parameter structure to the HookAPICalls() function as follows:

// Hook structure.
SDLLHook D3DHook =
{
 “DDRAW.DLL”,
 false, NULL, // Default hook disabled, NULL function pointer.
 {
  { “DirectDrawCreate”, MyDirectDrawCreate },
  { NULL, NULL }
 }
};
BOOL APIENTRY DllMain( HINSTANCE hModule,
                       DWORD fdwReason,
                       LPVOID lpReserved )
{
 // When initializing….
 if ( fdwReason == DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH )
 {
  hDLL = hModule;
  // We don’t need thread notifications for what we’re doing.
  // Thus, get rid of them, thereby eliminating some of the 
  // overhead of this DLL
  DisableThreadLibraryCalls( hModule );
  // Only hook the APIs if this is the Everquest process.
  GetModuleFileName( GetModuleHandle( NULL ),
                     Work,
                     sizeof(Work) );
  PathStripPath( Work );
  if ( stricmp( Work, “myhooktarget.exe” ) == 0 )
   HookAPICalls( &D3DHook );
 }
 return TRUE;
}

Now all that remains is to get your DLL loaded into the target process. The MSDN has a few good articles on Windows hooks, which are the preferred way to get an arbitrary DLL loaded into a process:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/msdn_hooks32.htm

Also, the article from which this code is based shows another way to do it, which involves loading the process to be hooked as a debug target:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period00/hood0200.htm

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