pwn.dog

pwn.dog

low-level teardowns, reverse engineering, and the occasional bite

A reverse-engineering notebook - driver teardowns, anti-cheat internals, exploitation, and debugging war stories. Static, no trackers, sources on GitHub. Findings are research and documentation only.

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AMD Anti-Lag+ vs VAC

4 parts

How AMD’s Anti-Lag+ (Adrenalin 23.10.1) tripped Valve Anti-Cheat in Counter-Strike 2 - a full static reverse-engineering teardown, from the shipping driver down to the patched bytes and the one-byte flag that turned it off.

  1. Detouring Yourself Into a Ban: Reverse-Engineering AMD Anti-Lag+
  2. The Engine Room: AMD's Detours-Based Hook Library (amdihk64)
  3. The Control Plane: How One Byte in a Profile Blob Disabled Anti-Lag+
  4. Indistinguishable: What VAC Checks For, and Why Anti-Lag+ Never Stood a Chance