Code injections using ptrace

Have you ever used dynamic libraries before? We’re sure you did. Alexei explains how OS loads dynamic libraries and how to load another library instead (using LD_PRELOAD hooks). As it’s easy to detect and mitigate LD_PRELOAD, Alexei digs deeper and talks about code injection on runtime. Learn how to use ptrace to search functions in a memory-mapped process and to manipulate the process’s state and thread execution.