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Bypassing Enterprise Bloatware: Building a Zero-Framework Asynchronous EDR Triad in Go and Pure WinAPI

Stop wasting your hardware threads and RAM pools on corporate endpoint detection agents that consume 500MB of memory just to stream telemetry to a cloud bucket. When you secure a host at the bare-metal subsystem layer, you don't need static signature databases, heavy Electron-based dashboards, or background bloatware overhead. You need execution velocity and aggressive, multi-threaded memory…

Enterprise detection agents often consume large amounts of hardware resources, such as 500MB of memory, to transmit telemetry to a cloud-based system. A more efficient approach is to secure a host at the bare-metal subsystem level, eliminating the need for static signature databases, heavy dashboard interfaces, and background bloatware. This design focuses on execution velocity and aggressive multi-threaded memory isolation.

The proposed architectural blueprint consists of two standalone, zero-signature components: Scidrow Hunter and Scidrow Sniper. The modular telemetry approach contrasts with single-threaded monolithic EDR solutions, which can be vulnerable to high-privilege threats that halt the main scan module.

Scidrow Hunter, a Go-based asynchronous telemetry collector, operates independently and is designed to consume minimal system resources. It utilizes Npcap under a BPF to perform deep network telemetry and JA3 fingerprinting on active TLS Handshake Client Hello packets. Any connection footprint that matches known C2 stager signatures generates an instant IPC payload.

Scidrow Sniper, a pure WinAPI C++ daemon, is responsible for native process termination. This component is optimized for performance using MinGW and runs efficiently on legacy hardware. Upon receiving a high-priority PID from Scidrow Hunter, the eviction thread instantly wakes up, bypassing standard Windows process management subroutines.

It performs a direct TerminateProcess on the malicious memory footprint, passing a hardcoded forensic signature (0XDEADC0DE) as the exit code. This ensures that forensic tools can trace the programmatic eviction back to the security stack.

Registry integrity is monitored through a high-velocity loop targeting critical Windows user-init persistence vectors. Any unauthorized alterations trigger a self-healing routine, overwriting the hive with clean system defaults and safely recycling the scanning context. Both components are open-source and available for community audit.

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