Hi I have finished the first part of my Spoopy Windows Sockets project. I'll continually work on it for because I'm (probably) mentally ill. I have written code which can communicate with HTTPS hosts without using WININET, WINHTTP, or WINSOCKS. It works by communicating directly with the Windows AFD (Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock). This is extremely beneficial because WININET, WINHTTP, and WINSOCKS have Windows telemetry stuff in place, for detecting stuff, or whatever. My favorite part of this project is that it also resolves DNS with AFD, so you can resolve DNS with SYSCALLS too. Basically, you can do web stuff with raw SYSCALLS and nothing else (sort of). The HTTPS TLS verification stuff happens (mostly) in user-mode space, and attempting to recreate it programmatically would result in me having to basically recreate something like OpenSSL, but Windows specific. I'm not doing that. You COULD do HTTPS stuff without verifying the TLS stuff, but that is probably a poor decision. Anyway, I have stripped this code down to the bone. I have removed virtually all dependencies. All headers have been recreated from scratched so there is zero bloat. This project and/or proof-of-concept is entirely self-encapsulated. To make it work all you need to do CTRL+C and CTRL+V into Visual Studio. That's it. Nothing else. I have made it as shrimple as possible. It has two functions right now: - EXAMPLE_HttpsSimpleGetRequestClose - EXAMPLE_HttpsSimpleGetRequestKeepAlive The names speak for themselves. I have code in place which will allow file uploads, downloads, and (maybe) HTTPS authentication. Ideally Red Team nerds, or Blue Team nerds, can look at this, poke it with a stick, and do really cool stuff with it. I have made it as least-schizo as possible. I have removed the position independence and stuff. This project is the result of research by x86matthew, Apple, Mārtiņš Možeiko, Mateusz Lewczak, Google Chrome nerds, ReactOS nerds, and some guy on UnknownCheats who writes like a caveman. gist.github.com/vxundergroun…