The Windows Registry Adventure #6: Kernel-mode objects
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Google Project Zero Welcome back to the Windows Registry Adventure! In the previous installment of the series, we took a deep look into the internals of the regf hive format. Understanding this foundational aspect of the registry is crucial, as it illuminates the design principles behind the mechanism, as well as its inherent strengths and weaknesses. The data stored within the regf file represents the definitive state of the hive. Knowing how to parse this data is sufficient for handling static files encoded in this format, such as when writing a custom regf parser to inspect [...]