Proxying & Loading โ€” DLL Proxy with Indirect Syscalls, ETW Bypass & Module Stomping

An academic study on how a proxy DLL can impersonate a legitimate library while loading and executing an encrypted payload โ€” without touching hooked Win32 APIs, without leaving RWX memory, and without writing a single byte to ntdll.

June 16, 2026 ยท 20 min ยท MrAzoth