Application shims are on the security+ test, which is required for some federal jobs. Now if you want to make some money as a highly paid consultant, you might need to rebuild apps to work on newer versions of windows. How can you make that cash? You could use this shim kit to try to make the app work without building it from scratch.
shim examples – ForceAdminAccess shim tries to trick the application into believing that the current user is a member of the local Administrator group, even if he is not. (Many applications outright fail if you are not a local administrator, though you may be able to use other tricks, such as UAC File and Registry Virtualization, to resolve the issues that caused the check in the first place.) How it implements this check can be fairly straightforward. For example, this shim intercepts the API IsUserAnAdmin from shell32.dll. The complete source code of the shimmed function (which has wonderful performance characteristics compared to the actual API) is simply return TRUE.
The WrpMitigation shim tricks application installers into believing they can write to files that are protected by Windows Resource Protection (WRP). If you try to write to a file that’s protected, the shim first creates a new temporary file, marks it to be deleted once the handle is closed, and then returns the handle to the temporary file as if it were the actual protected file. The application installs the crusty old version of kernel32.dll or shell32.dll (or whichever other file it picked up while it was being packaged) into a temp file, but then that temp file goes away and the matching, patched, up-to-date version of the protected file remains on the file system. So, WRP can still ensure that you don’t end up with an ancient copy of shell32.dll from Windows 95 on your computer, but the installer won’t fail with ACCESS_DENIED when you use this shim.
A shim – helps applications by modifying calls to the operating system.
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