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Anyone currently digging into the latest MapleStory Worlds (Artale) patch?
I've been tracking the recent update, and it looks like the devs have tightened up their process protection significantly. It used to be a standard scan, but now the environment is actively nuking access after the initialization phase.
The Symptoms:
Technical Breakdown:
It's highly likely they are implementing some form of handle stripping or periodically re-validating the process access rights against their anti-cheat module. The fact that it works for a few seconds suggests it might be a delayed hook or a background thread starting up that detects an attached debugger/scanner and strips the handle access in real-time.
If you're getting similar behavior or found a way to bypass the handle restriction, let's hear it. Anyone else running into this specific access violation?
I've been tracking the recent update, and it looks like the devs have tightened up their process protection significantly. It used to be a standard scan, but now the environment is actively nuking access after the initialization phase.
The Symptoms:
- Process enumeration fails to list the target name correctly in standard tools.
- Scanning works for the first ~30 seconds of runtime, then everything hits a wall.
- Memory values turn into '???' across the board once the window of opportunity closes.
- Triggering a manual scan results in the classic 'Scan error:controller:No readable memory found'.
Technical Breakdown:
It's highly likely they are implementing some form of handle stripping or periodically re-validating the process access rights against their anti-cheat module. The fact that it works for a few seconds suggests it might be a delayed hook or a background thread starting up that detects an attached debugger/scanner and strips the handle access in real-time.
- Check if your tool is being detected by a kernel-mode callback on thread creation.
- Verify if the game is using an ObRegisterCallbacks filter to strip handles to the process from user-mode callers.
- Consider if they've implemented a custom page protection routine that triggers on read operations.
If you're getting similar behavior or found a way to bypass the handle restriction, let's hear it. Anyone else running into this specific access violation?
