Can the project modified to load a .so file without call dlopen()?

[nk4z0u]

Hi.

A .so file is also an ELF file, so can the project modified to load a .so file without call dlopen()? And is it easy to do that based on the project?

Specifically, a process call something like "pawn_dlopen" and load a .so file into current process, and then get the export function address and call it.

Thank you.

[enty8080]

Hello, @nk4z0u

May I ask you would you need to load a shared object if you can just load a complete executable ELF? I've never tried to write a tool to load a shared object though. I am interested in developing this project, so I might do this in future.

Kind regards,
Ivan Nikolskiy (@enty8080)

[nk4z0u]

Hello, @enty8080. Sorry for replying late.

Yes. The scene is, in a running process, I'd like to load a shared object, but for some reason I can't call dlopen() to load it directly, so I want to know how to load a shared object manually without call dlopen().

[enty8080]

@nk4z0u Why can't you just inject shellcode that loads appended ELF? Why would you need to load shared object specifically?