Saturday 17 November 2012

Using Jni4Net (Part 1) - To C# REPL a java process (ZAP Proxy)

Last week I discovered the Jni4Net FOSS project which provides the foundation blocks to create a Java bridge to .Net (and vice-versa).

To try Jni4Net, and see if it was really possible to have .Net and Java code running on the same process (with the CLR and JVM being able to invoke each other's methods), I decided to see if I could connect the O2 Platform with the OWASP ZAP project (with both running on the same process)

My first step was to use the Injecting C# DLLs into Managed (C#) and Unmanaged (C++) processes  O2 capabilities to inject an C# REPL into the ZAP process.

And here they are in action:


  • the foreground window is the (CLR based) C# REPL 
  • the background window is the (JVM based) ZAP process.



After some experiments, I was able to use Jni4Net to create an mini .Net tool (based on the the Util - Java Decompiler (JAD based) v1.0.exe ) that used Jni4Net's direct access to the JVM to show (and browse) the the currently loaded *.jar files (based on data retrieved from the JVMs ClassLoader).

For example here are some ZAP classes, and the decompiled main method:



For more details on how these PoCs were created, take a look at this pdf: