getting base address from an exe c++

Question

I tried to get the base starting address from this exe with openprocess, but I keep crashing when I run the code and I don't really see anything wrong with it.

HMODULE GetModule(HANDLE han)
{
    HMODULE hMods[1024];
    int i;
    DWORD cbNeeded;
    char szProcessName[MAX_PATH] = "Minesweeper.exe";
    EnumProcessModules(han, hMods, sizeof(hMods), &cbNeeded);
    for (i = 0; i < (cbNeeded / sizeof(HMODULE)); i++)
    {
        TCHAR szModName[MAX_PATH];
        GetModuleFileNameEx(han, hMods[i], szProcessName, sizeof(szModName));
        //printf(TEXT("\t%s (0x%08X)\n"), szModName, hMods[i]);
        if (szModName == szProcessName)
        {
            cout << "FOUND" << endl;
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

There are several issues with your code:

• You are using TCHAR , but not using TCHAR consistently.
• You're using == instead of the correct string comparison function.
• The call to GetModuleFileNameEx uses the wrong array.

Here is a cleaned up version of your code, with corrections (not tested, but has most if not all of the issues with the code addressed):

HMODULE GetModule(HANDLE han)
{
    HMODULE hMods[1024];
    int i;
    DWORD cbNeeded;
    TCHAR szProcessName[MAX_PATH] = _T("Minesweeper.exe");
    EnumProcessModules(han, hMods, sizeof(hMods), &cbNeeded);
    for (i = 0; i < (cbNeeded / sizeof(HMODULE)); i++)
    {
        TCHAR szModName[MAX_PATH];
        GetModuleFileNameEx(han, hMods[i], szModName, sizeof(szModName) / sizeof(TCHAR));
        if ( _tcscmp(szModName,szProcessName) == 0)
        {
            cout << "FOUND" << endl;
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

Note that the _T() macro is used to represent string literals. Since Microsoft has two character-set build types, and you're using TCHAR , you should have the rest of your strings be TCHAR compatible. Using straight up char , and relying on the character-set build type to save you from a compiler or runtime error is not the way to write the code.

In addition, the sizeof in the call to GetModuleFileNameEx must be divided by sizeof(TCHAR) to be correct.

Also, to address the string comparison, the _tcscmp function is used. This function will be correct regardless of the character-set build type.