Cheat Engine

[rovnix]

No one to give me a guide to what i want to learn hence i have to learn here on Forums and from little resources i have left.

Now i have been trying my best to understand hooking (game hacking only, No malware) I want to have to Hook some Functions now i see what these fellow writes here

http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/topic/41671-firefox-hooking/?p=10100199 If it is not a windows WINAPI Function, it takes 8 bytes instruction, if its a Windows WinAPI function , what then should it take , 5 bytes?
Pls i am kind of new to Reverse Engineering

[Csimbi]

You create a hook by replacing instructions with a jump.
A jump in a 32bit executable is typically 5 bytes - the first byte is the instruction to jump followed by the destination address.

If the instructions you replace amount to exactly 5 bytes, great.
Otherwise, you will need to replace more than 5, "rounding it up" until the end of the next instruction's bytecode.

Remember to save the code you replace because:
- a) you might need to execute it
- b) you will need to restore it in case you want to remove the hook

Also, make sure there's no jump instruction pointing into the instructions you replace (in case you replace more than one instruction, it is possible something points to the second instruction -> crash).

Good luck!