# Masquerade Peb as Explorer

Example snippet of usage

```cpp
BOOL MasqueradePebAsExplorer(PWCHAR *Buffer)
{
	typedef NTSTATUS(NTAPI* RTLENTERCRITICALSECTION)(PRTL_CRITICAL_SECTION);
	typedef NTSTATUS(NTAPI* RTLLEAVECRITICALSECTION)(PRTL_CRITICAL_SECTION);
	RTLENTERCRITICALSECTION RtlEnterCriticalSection = NULL;
	RTLLEAVECRITICALSECTION RtlLeaveCriticalSection = NULL;

	HMODULE Module = NULL;
	LPWSTR WindowsPath = NULL;

	PPEB Peb = GetPeb();

	PLDR_MODULE InMemoryBinaryLoaderData = NULL;

	Module = GetModuleHandleA("ntdll.dll");
	if (Module == NULL)
		goto EXIT_ROUTINE;

	RtlEnterCriticalSection = (RTLENTERCRITICALSECTION)GetProcAddress(Module, "RtlEnterCriticalSection");
	RtlLeaveCriticalSection = (RTLLEAVECRITICALSECTION)GetProcAddress(Module, "RtlLeaveCriticalSection");

	if (!RtlEnterCriticalSection || !RtlLeaveCriticalSection)
		goto EXIT_ROUTINE;

	if (!SUCCEEDED(SHGetKnownFolderPath(FOLDERID_Windows, 0, NULL, &WindowsPath)))
		goto EXIT_ROUTINE;

	*Buffer = (PWCHAR)HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY, MAX_PATH * sizeof(WCHAR));
	if (*Buffer == NULL)
		goto EXIT_ROUTINE;

	if (StringCopyW(*Buffer, WindowsPath) == NULL)
		goto EXIT_ROUTINE;

	if (StringConcatW(*Buffer, (PWCHAR)L"\\explorer.exe") == NULL)
		goto EXIT_ROUTINE;

	InMemoryBinaryLoaderData = (PLDR_MODULE)((PBYTE)Peb->LoaderData->InMemoryOrderModuleList.Flink - 16);

	RtlEnterCriticalSection((PRTL_CRITICAL_SECTION)Peb->FastPebLock);

	RtlInitUnicodeString(&Peb->ProcessParameters->ImagePathName, *Buffer);
	RtlInitUnicodeString(&Peb->ProcessParameters->CommandLine, *Buffer);

	RtlInitUnicodeString(&InMemoryBinaryLoaderData->FullDllName, *Buffer);
	RtlInitUnicodeString(&InMemoryBinaryLoaderData->BaseDllName, *Buffer);

	RtlLeaveCriticalSection((PRTL_CRITICAL_SECTION)Peb->FastPebLock);

EXIT_ROUTINE:

	if (WindowsPath)
		CoTaskMemFree(WindowsPath);

	return TRUE;
}
```

```cpp
INT main(VOID)
{
	PWCHAR Buffer = NULL;

	if (!MasqueradePebAsExplorer(&Buffer))
		goto EXIT_ROUTINE;

EXIT_ROUTINE:

	if (Buffer)
		HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY, Buffer);

	return ERROR_SUCCESS;
}
```


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