Every Game Hacking Technique Explained As FAST As Possible!

Summary

This video provides a comprehensive guide to the various methods of game hacking, focusing on techniques used to bypass anti-cheat systems. It covers internal cheats, external cheats, DMA-based cheats, hooking, kernel-level cheats, and virtual machine-based cheats, explaining how each method works, their advantages, and the challenges they face. The video aims to educate beginners on the core techniques behind game hacking while highlighting the ongoing battle between hackers and developers. Viewers are encouraged to stay tuned for more tutorials on creating and understanding these cheats.

Takeaways

• 😀 Game hacking involves exploiting a game's weaknesses to gain unfair advantages, such as cheats and automation.
• 😀 Internal cheats are injected directly into a game's memory, giving hackers full control over game functions and bypassing restrictions.
• 😀 DLL injection is the most common method for injecting internal cheats, but anti-cheats can detect them by monitoring loaded modules.
• 😀 Manual mapping is a technique used to bypass DLL injection detection by emulating the DLL loading process.
• 😀 External cheats run separately from the game, manipulating its memory by using Windows API functions like `ReadProcessMemory` and `WriteProcessMemory`.
• 😀 External cheats are easier to detect than internal cheats because they rely on common system API functions, which anti-cheats can block.
• 😀 DMA-based cheats bypass the CPU and OS by using external hardware to directly access the game's memory, making detection almost impossible for software-based anti-cheats.
• 😀 DMA cheats require expensive hardware and a second computer to operate, making them less accessible to casual hackers.
• 😀 Hooking refers to modifying or intercepting game or system functions, allowing cheats to manipulate gameplay, while anti-cheats hook critical system functions to block cheats.
• 😀 Kernel-level cheats involve custom drivers or exploiting vulnerabilities in existing drivers to gain deeper access to the game’s memory and input devices, making detection much more difficult for user-mode anti-cheats.

Q & A

What are internal cheats, and how do they work?

Internal cheats are programs or code injected directly into a game's memory space, giving them full control over the game's functions. This allows the cheat to bypass certain restrictions and alter the game's behavior. They are powerful because they act like a native part of the game, but anti-cheat systems detect them by monitoring for unusual DLL injections into the game's memory.

How do hackers bypass detection when using internal cheats?

Hackers can bypass detection by using techniques like manual mapping. This method emulates the DLL loading process but avoids listing the cheat in the game's loaded modules, making it harder for anti-cheat systems to detect the injected cheat.

What are external cheats and how do they differ from internal cheats?

External cheats run separately from the game, interacting with the game's memory without directly altering the game's process. Unlike internal cheats, external cheats are less detectable, but they still rely on common Windows API functions like 'ReadProcessMemory' to manipulate the game, which can be detected by anti-cheat systems that monitor those functions.

Why are external cheats more vulnerable to detection?

External cheats are vulnerable to detection because they use common Windows API functions, such as 'OpenProcess' and 'ReadProcessMemory', which are monitored by anti-cheat systems. Anti-cheats can hook these functions to prevent access to the game's memory, making it harder for external cheats to work.

What are DMA-based cheats, and how do they evade anti-cheat systems?

DMA-based cheats use external hardware devices, like a network card, to directly access the game's memory, bypassing the CPU and operating system. This makes them hard to detect because no cheat software is running on the gaming PC. However, this method requires expensive hardware and a second computer to function, limiting its accessibility.

What are the challenges associated with using DMA-based cheats?

DMA cheats require specialized and expensive hardware, such as a second computer and a device plugged into the gaming PC's PCIe slot. This makes it a less accessible option for casual hackers. Additionally, using this method requires advanced knowledge of hardware and system configuration.

What is the hooking technique, and how is it used by both hackers and anti-cheat systems?

Hooking is a method where cheats modify or intercept API calls or game functions to control or alter their behavior. For example, a cheat might hook into the game's rendering function to display an ESP overlay. Anti-cheat systems use hooking in reverse to monitor and block cheats by intercepting critical functions like 'LoadLibrary' and 'OpenProcess'.

How can hackers bypass anti-cheat hooks?

Hackers can bypass anti-cheat hooks by using methods like manual mapping, which avoids triggering hooks that monitor functions like 'LoadLibrary'. By not relying on the hooked functions, cheats can evade detection.

What are kernel-level cheats, and why are they more difficult to detect?

Kernel-level cheats operate at the core of the operating system, using custom drivers or exploiting vulnerabilities in existing drivers to gain direct access to the game's process memory. Since these cheats operate at a lower level, they are harder for user-level anti-cheat programs to detect. However, they are still vulnerable to kernel-level anti-cheats, such as Riot Vanguard or Easy Anti-Cheat.

What are the potential risks of using kernel-level cheats?

Kernel-level cheats can cause system instability and crashes if the custom driver is not properly written. Additionally, modern anti-cheat systems are moving to kernel-level detection, making it harder for hackers to exploit this method. The hacker must also ensure the cheat driver does not trigger detection mechanisms, which requires high-level technical knowledge.

How do virtual machine (VM) cheats work, and what challenges do they present?

VM cheats use hardware virtualization to create an isolated environment where the game runs inside a virtual machine, while the cheat operates outside in the host system. This separation makes it harder for anti-cheat systems to detect the cheat. However, setting up a VM-based cheat requires knowledge of virtualization technologies and hypervisor programming. Additionally, running games in a virtual machine can cause performance issues, and some anti-cheat systems are beginning to detect when games are run in VMs.

What is the main advantage of using virtual machine-based cheats over other methods?

The main advantage of VM-based cheats is that the cheat operates outside the virtualized environment, making it difficult for user-mode anti-cheat systems to detect it. This separation allows the cheat to manipulate the game's memory without directly interacting with it, providing an effective way to bypass detection.