Capturing information from another application.

[remnant]

I've been researching this all day long, and haven't come up with much.

I am basically trying to capture some text that is sent to another game application.

I originally thought that I could use a Windows API call possibly to hook the application and get the data as it was written. I couldn't figure out how that could possibly work, as all I could figure out was how to get the Handle of the application, and basic information.

My next thought was to setup a Listener socket on the same port the application is receiving the data from; however, I soon found out that only one device could be "bound" to that port at a time.

My final idea comes from Packet Sniffing. I have used Ethereal before to sniff out some packets, and so I used it to get information about the packets the application was processing.

The application is receiving TCP packets, and the packets that I need to capture appear to be in ASCII text. (They are visibly readable in the packet logs).

I was wondering if anyone had any insight on how I might extract this plain text information from either the application that is receiving it, or the packets that are incoming.

Thanks.

(Edit)
I had one more idea after posting this. I was wondering if their is a way to access the memory of another program and extract the values that way? Sort of like trainer programs work for some games. I would be extracting things like coordinates, and text in game.

[Killamus]

Your best bet would be to mod the game itself, and have some type of display to tell individual packets.

If SpyUO is Opensource ( Don't think it is ), you can try and see how that functions. Thats exactly what you're describing.

[remnant]

Explain what you mean by "Modding" please.

[mordero]

Originally Posted by Killamus

Your best bet would be to mod the game itself, and have some type of display to tell individual packets.

If SpyUO is Opensource ( Don't think it is ), you can try and see how that functions. Thats exactly what you're describing.

SpyUO is opensource

[remnant]

I'm checking out SpyUO now. I can already tell it is over my head, but perhaps I can find a starting point within it and go from there.
Btw, here is the packet I need to capture and extract:

0000  00 16 ec 35 c3 d7 00 14  51 61 12 ac 08 00 45 00   ...5.... Qa....E.
0010  01 12 63 1a 40 00 73 06  d9 45 4a 34 be a2 c0 a8   ..c.@.s. .EJ4....
0020  01 07 07 d1 11 65 8c b0  f2 1a 9f 84 c7 4e 50 18   .....e.. .....NP.
0030  fb 29 ab 3e 00 00 16 00  10 00 00 00 13 00 00 00   .).>.... ........
0040  02 00 00 00 44 00 54 68  65 03 50 72 6f 6d 75 6c   ....D.Th e.Promul
0050  67 61 74 69 6f 6e 03 6f  66 03 74 68 65 03 6d 65   gation.o f.the.me
0060  73 73 61 67 65 03 61 62  6f 75 74 03 61 72 74 69   ssage.ab out.arti
0070  63 6c 65 73 03 69 6e 03  66 61 73 68 69 6f 6e 03   cles.in. fashion.
0080  73 75 63 63 65 65 64 65  64 21 02 00 00 04 00 42   succeede d!.....B
0090  61 63 6b ee ee 1b 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 63   ack..... .......c
00a0  20 34 20 52 79 6f 64 69  6e 20 48 65 72 6f 20 5b    4 Ryodi n Hero [
00b0  41 74 68 65 6e 73 5d 54  68 65 03 6d 6f 73 74 03   Athens]T he.most.
00c0  70 6f 70 75 6c 61 72 03  69 74 65 6d 03 74 6f 64   popular. item.tod
00d0  61 79 03 69 73 03 5b 50  6f 72 63 65 6c 61 69 6e   ay.is.[P orcelain
00e0  5d 2c 5b 48 61 6e 64 69  63 72 61 66 74 5d 2c 6c   ],[Handi craft],l
00f0  65 66 74 03 33 39 03 6d  69 6e 75 74 65 73 03 66   eft.39.m inutes.f
0100  6f 72 03 6e 65 78 74 03  72 6f 75 6e 64 03 74 72   or.next. round.tr
0110  65 6e 64 03 63 68 61 6e  67 69 6e 67 2e 00 ee ee   end.chan ging....