System development

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.