DLL Hijack Protection Demo 2: Poorly Designed Apps Protection
A poorly designed application loads a DLL by name instead of using a full path — a common DLL hijacking vulnerability.
In this demo:
- The app runs and successfully loads a malicious Evil.dll, demonstrating the hijack works.
- DLL Hijack Protection is enabled — the attack is blocked and logged.
- To handle a false positive, create a DLL Hijack Protection rule to allow the approved DLL.