Metadata_Modification

Metadata Modification for Windows Rust Binaries

Replace the metadata modification from trusted file to our executable binary file.

Methods !

• Choose your Target file. For example i have choosen OneDrive.exe

• I have attacted the file into ResourceHacker.exe file. Open it and choose the Target Binary file. In our case OneDrive.exe

• On Version Info. You can see the the content of resource.rc file. Either you can right click and download the .rc file. or you can just copy the BLOCK that contains data.

• Next create an Directory res/ and create resource.rc file. and paste the following data to the file.

  Modify the file from the BLOCK "040904B0"

        1 VERSIONINFO
        FILEVERSION 1,0,0,0
        PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,0
        FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3F
        FILEFLAGS 0x0
        FILEOS 0x40004
        FILETYPE 0x1
        FILESUBTYPE 0x0
        BEGIN
            BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
            BEGIN
                BLOCK "040904B0"
                BEGIN
        			VALUE "CompanyName", "Microsoft Corporation"
        			VALUE "FileDescription", "Microsoft OneDrive (64 bit) Setup"
        			VALUE "InternalName", "OneDriveSetup.exe"
        			VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved."
        			VALUE "OriginalFilename", "OneDriveSetup.exe"
        			VALUE "ProductName", "Microsoft OneDrive"
        			VALUE "FileVersion", "24.226.1110.0004"
        			VALUE "ProductVersion", "24.226.1110.0004"
        			VALUE "SpecialBuild", "b/build/10555381-65ec-136d-7d57-ecec00fce7a0"
                END
            END
            BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
            BEGIN
                VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
            END
        END

        1 ICON "res/icon.ico"

• After that Download an suitable .icon and place it in the res/icon.ico path.

• Now Add the following crates in [build-dependencies] category under the [dependencies] category.

• Create an build.rs file from the directory. The tree structure directory will be like.

    Simple_Program\
    |__src\
    |   |___main.rs
    | 
    |__res\
    |   |__resource.rc
    |   |__icon.ico
    |
    |__build.rs
    |__Cargo.lock
    |__Cargo.toml

• Follow the code in the build.rs and compile the program.

• After compiling. Look at the Results : )

Credits

By @5mukx