Closed himselfv closed 5 years ago
After much digging, turns out these things are so-called WNF State Names:
https://blog.quarkslab.com/playing-with-the-windows-notification-facility-wnf.html
WNF is an undocumented low-level system-wide facility to deliver per-system/per-user/per-session simple (int64 + optional data) event notifications to subscribers.
WNF State Names have a few flags in the lower bits, but otherwise are self-declared, like HRESULTs or GUIDs. Only in contrast to GUIDs, State Names are only 8 bytes so there's a chance of collisions. Currently the facility is internal so the list is probably curated.
Various DLLs throughout the system define State Names, and thankfully there seems to be a way to extract these definitions from PDBs, along sometimes even with descriptions. I'm using a list compiled by http://redplait.blogspot.com/2017/08/wnf-ids-from-perfntcdll.html
The list is not exhaustive. Once the guys by the first link release their scanner tool I might update it with everything extracted from everywhere.
Mostly done, though would be good to update the list after quarkslab releases their automatic grabbing tool.
Original report by me.
For now we only support plain text GUID, maybe there are lists of possible options? (System-wide or sources for building custom list)