[python-win32] WinAppDbg 1.4 is out!
What is WinAppDbg? == The WinAppDbg python module allows developers to quickly code instrumentation scripts in Python under a Windows environment. It uses ctypes to wrap many Win32 API calls related to debugging, and provides an object-oriented abstraction layer to manipulate threads, libraries and processes, attach your script as a debugger, trace execution, hook API calls, handle events in your debugee and set breakpoints of different kinds (code, hardware and memory). Additionally it has no native code at all, making it easier to maintain or modify than other debuggers on Windows. The intended audience are QA engineers and software security auditors wishing to test / fuzz Windows applications with quickly coded Python scripts. Several ready to use utilities are shipped and can be used for this purposes. Current features also include disassembling x86 native code (using the open source diStorm project, see http://ragestorm.net/distorm/), debugging multiple processes simultaneously and produce a detailed log of application crashes, useful for fuzzing and automated testing. What's new in this version? === In a nutshell... * fully supports Python 2.4 through 2.7 * fully supports Windows XP through Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit editions * crash report tool now supports MSSQL (requires pyodbc) * now supports downloading debugging symbols from Microsoft (thanks Neitsa!) * new tool: sehtest.py (Windows SEH buffer overflow jump address bruteforcer, inspired by the same tool by Nicolas Economou) * the tutorial is now available in chm and pdf formats * now with only one MSI installer for all supported Python versions * added support for diStorm 3 (falls back to the old version if not found) * now using cerealizer instead of pickle whenever possible * added new command to the command line debugger to show the SEH chain * a few more anti-anti-debug tricks were added, still more to go! * several improvements to the Window instrumentation classes * more code examples * more Win32 API wrappers * lots of miscellaneous improvements, more documentation and bugfixes as usual! Entire changelog for all versions (slow!): http://p.sf.net/winappdbg/changelog Where can I find WinAppDbg? === Project homepage: - http://tinyurl.com/winappdbg Download links: --- Windows installer (32 bits) http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.win32.exe/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.win32.msi/download Windows installer (64 bits) http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.win-amd64.exe/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.win-amd64.msi/download Source code http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.zip/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.tar.bz2/download Documentation: -- Online http://winappdbg.sourceforge.net/doc/v1.4/tutorial http://winappdbg.sourceforge.net/doc/v1.4/reference For download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-tutorial-1.4.chm/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-reference-1.4.chm/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-tutorial-1.4.pdf/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-reference-1.4.pdf/download ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Client side COM problems with ByRef parameters
I'm trying to drive an application via it's COM interface but I am having trouble with ByRef parameters. The method I'm having trouble with, in VB, is: Public Function GetVuserTypeLicenseLimit( ByVal strVuserType As String, ByRef pRetLimit As Long ) As Long translating this into python as: a = o.GetVuserTypeLicenseLimit(userType) gives me: com_error: (-2147352561, 'Parameter not optional.', None, None) Now, I played about with the .py file generated by makepy to see if I could persuade it to play nicely but nothing affected the result. Eventually I changed the .py file so that the interface was: def xxGetVuserTypeLicenseLimit(self, strVuserType=defaultNamedNotOptArg, pRetLimit=defaultNamedNotOptArg): Get the License limit for the Vuser Type return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(8, LCID, 1, (3, 0), ((8, 1), (16387, 0)),strVuserType , pRetLimit) and it still didn't change anything! I'd have expected an 'Attribute Error' or something like that as I've changed the method name. As a last resort I deleted the contents of the gen_py directory, still with no effect. So, I'm left thinking that this type lib can't or won't use the win32com magic Dispatch support and it's falling back to dynamic support. Can anyone suggest what's actually happening here, and any way forward? For completeness, the entire script is: import win32com.client lr = win32com.client.Dispatch(wlrun.LrEngine) lr.ShowMainWindow(True) # - works fine, application pops up ok. webVusers = lr.GetVuserTypeLicenseLimit(QTWeb) # :-( print webVusers Thanks, Mark. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] WinAppDbg 1.4 is out!
How is it different from pydbg? Sent from my Blackberry handheld. - Original Message - From: Mario Vilas mvi...@gmail.com To: bugt...@securityfocus.com bugt...@securityfocus.com; full-disclos...@lists.grok.org.uk full-disclos...@lists.grok.org.uk; Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Sent: Tue Aug 24 09:00:59 2010 Subject: WinAppDbg 1.4 is out! What is WinAppDbg? == The WinAppDbg python module allows developers to quickly code instrumentation scripts in Python under a Windows environment. It uses ctypes to wrap many Win32 API calls related to debugging, and provides an object-oriented abstraction layer to manipulate threads, libraries and processes, attach your script as a debugger, trace execution, hook API calls, handle events in your debugee and set breakpoints of different kinds (code, hardware and memory). Additionally it has no native code at all, making it easier to maintain or modify than other debuggers on Windows. The intended audience are QA engineers and software security auditors wishing to test / fuzz Windows applications with quickly coded Python scripts. Several ready to use utilities are shipped and can be used for this purposes. Current features also include disassembling x86 native code (using the open source diStorm project, see http://ragestorm.net/distorm/), debugging multiple processes simultaneously and produce a detailed log of application crashes, useful for fuzzing and automated testing. What's new in this version? === In a nutshell... * fully supports Python 2.4 through 2.7 * fully supports Windows XP through Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit editions * crash report tool now supports MSSQL (requires pyodbc) * now supports downloading debugging symbols from Microsoft (thanks Neitsa!) * new tool: sehtest.py (Windows SEH buffer overflow jump address bruteforcer, inspired by the same tool by Nicolas Economou) * the tutorial is now available in chm and pdf formats * now with only one MSI installer for all supported Python versions * added support for diStorm 3 (falls back to the old version if not found) * now using cerealizer instead of pickle whenever possible * added new command to the command line debugger to show the SEH chain * a few more anti-anti-debug tricks were added, still more to go! * several improvements to the Window instrumentation classes * more code examples * more Win32 API wrappers * lots of miscellaneous improvements, more documentation and bugfixes as usual! Entire changelog for all versions (slow!): http://p.sf.net/winappdbg/changelog Where can I find WinAppDbg? === Project homepage: - http://tinyurl.com/winappdbg Download links: --- Windows installer (32 bits) http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.win32.exe/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.win32.msi/download Windows installer (64 bits) http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.win-amd64.exe/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.win-amd64.msi/download Source code http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.zip/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-1.4.tar.bz2/download Documentation: -- Online http://winappdbg.sourceforge.net/doc/v1.4/tutorial http://winappdbg.sourceforge.net/doc/v1.4/reference For download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-tutorial-1.4.chm/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-reference-1.4.chm/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-tutorial-1.4.pdf/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/winappdbg/files/WinAppDbg/1.4/winappdbg-reference-1.4.pdf/download ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Detecting when a system has multiple monitors (desktops)
Does anyone know how to detect if a system has multiple monitors (desktops) through Python? I've written a program which allows the user to open multiple stand-alone windows. When I run this program I usually drag these windows to my secondary monitor. I was to save the screen coordinates of the window locations so they can be restored. First, the program must detect the multiple desktops and then understand if the screen coordinates of those windows are related to the primary or secondary desktop. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Detecting when a system has multiple monitors (desktops)
Tony Cappellini wrote: Does anyone know how to detect if a system has multiple monitors (desktops) through Python? I've written a program which allows the user to open multiple stand-alone windows. When I run this program I usually drag these windows to my secondary monitor. I was to save the screen coordinates of the window locations so they can be restored. First, the program must detect the multiple desktops and then understand if the screen coordinates of those windows are related to the primary or secondary desktop. For the task you have described, that's not necessary at all. On a multi-monitor system, an application that is not multi-monitor aware will simply see one large desktop. If you save the coordinates and restore them later, it will pop up on the same monitor as when you saved. For example, I run two 1280x1024 monitors side by side, with the primary monitor on the right. If I move a window to the left monitor and then fetch the screen coordinates, the X coordinate is negative (because (0,0) is the upper left of the primary monitor). If I kill the app, bring it back up, and position it to (-900, 100), it is placed on the left-hand monitor. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Detecting when a system has multiple monitors (desktops)
Tony: All of this is handled in the dragonfly package: http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/ Note that you do not need speech recognition in order to use it. In particular, look at from dragonfly import Window, monitors and the window.py file in the distribution. Good luck! On 8/24/2010 4:33 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: Does anyone know how to detect if a system has multiple monitors (desktops) through Python? I've written a program which allows the user to open multiple stand-alone windows. When I run this program I usually drag these windows to my secondary monitor. I was to save the screen coordinates of the window locations so they can be restored. First, the program must detect the multiple desktops and then understand if the screen coordinates of those windows are related to the primary or secondary desktop. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Detecting when a system has multiple monitors (desktops)
Thanks- but I think Tim's solution is more native and has the added benefit of not requiring any additional software.. I was thinking too much into the problem. However, I will keep your reply for future reference. There may be a time when I need the monitors package. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:21 PM, reckoner recko...@gmail.com wrote: Tony: All of this is handled in the dragonfly package: http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/ Note that you do not need speech recognition in order to use it. In particular, look at from dragonfly import Window, monitors and the window.py file in the distribution. Good luck! On 8/24/2010 4:33 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: Does anyone know how to detect if a system has multiple monitors (desktops) through Python? I've written a program which allows the user to open multiple stand-alone windows. When I run this program I usually drag these windows to my secondary monitor. I was to save the screen coordinates of the window locations so they can be restored. First, the program must detect the multiple desktops and then understand if the screen coordinates of those windows are related to the primary or secondary desktop. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
