Reverse Engineering on Remko's Blog

PNAgent Icon Data Algorithm

Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:34:05 +0000

Some time ago I wrote about the PNAgent data that is stored in the registry in XML format.

After that post Andrew Morgan asked me if I could extract the PNAgent icons from the XML data.

That got me interested so let’s look at this data!

If you look at XML from PNAgent the icondata as in the AppData.Details.Icon node you’ll see something like this:

Seems like the icon data is stored/encrypted in a proprietary format.

Modify VB Executable to force Taskbar Button

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:07:18 +0000

I had to troubleshoot an application that was published with Citrix XenApp. The problem with this application was that it didn't have an button/icon in the taskbar and the window would sometimes disappear.

I noticed that this (cr)application was written in Visual Basic, so I decided to run it through a decompilation tool.

The decompiler was able to list the forms used in the Application: