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C# A little help with conversions

 
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 08, 2019 5:46 pm    Post subject: C# A little help with conversions Reply with quote

I've been able to get my pointer through 5 offsets in cheat engine and this works great, however it's a 64bit application and I'm running into some strange results when attempting to ReadProcessMemory in C#

When I step through it, the first ReadProcessMemory call sets BaseValue to -968473392. Where I expect it to be the address 1FBC64644D0 as it is in CE. Any help is appreciated.


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namespace ConsoleApp1
{
    public class MemoryManager
    {
        const int PROCESS_WM_READ = 0x0010;

        [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
        public static extern IntPtr OpenProcess(int dwDesiredAccess, bool bInheritHandle, int dwProcessId);

        [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
        public static extern bool ReadProcessMemory(int hProcess, Int64 lpBaseAddress, byte[] lpBuffer, int dwSize, ref int lpNumberOfBytesRead);

        public MemoryManager()
        {

            Process process = Process.GetProcessesByName("XXXXXX_x64").FirstOrDefault();
            IntPtr processHandle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_WM_READ, false, process.Id);

            var bytesRead = 0;
            byte[] buffer = new byte[4];


            Int64 pointer = IntPtr.Add(process.Modules[0].BaseAddress, 0x01DE8B78).ToInt64();
            ReadProcessMemory((int)processHandle, pointer, buffer, buffer.Length, ref bytesRead);
            Int64 baseValue = BitConverter.ToInt32(buffer, 0); // This is a negative integrer instead of "1FBC64644D0"
           
            Int64 firstAddress = baseValue + 0x18;
            ReadProcessMemory((int)processHandle, firstAddress, buffer, buffer.Length, ref bytesRead);
            Int64 firstValue = BitConverter.ToInt32(buffer, 0);





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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 2:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BitConverter.ToInt32 is wrong for this instance since you are working with 64bit values. You need to convert to 64bit values, not 32bit. Use ToInt64/ToUInt64 instead.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

atom0s wrote:
BitConverter.ToInt32 is wrong for this instance since you are working with 64bit values. You need to convert to 64bit values, not 32bit. Use ToInt64/ToUInt64 instead.



Thanks, I also needed to change the byte[4] to byte[8], and leave the dwSize at 4.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

also lpNumberOfBytesRead is 64 bit in 64-bit processes
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