Bluescreen of Death

This is a very basic implementation on how to replicate a BSOD (Bluescreen of Death), using Python and Ctypes.

Usage

python bluescreen.py

How does it work?

I won't go too far into detail as this is pretty basic. We are calling RtlAdjustPrivilege to give our process shutdown privileges. After that, we raise a STATUS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED error with NtRaiseHardError, essentially telling our computer that there was an issue and a status was not completed. This causes a BSOD as when we call NtRaiseHardError, it internally sends a HARDERROR_MSG to the Local Inter-Process Communication Server, resulting in a BSOD.

Sources

1. RtlAdjustPrivilege

2. NtRaiseHardError

3. STATUS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED

4. HARDERROR_MSG

5. Local Inter-Process Communication Server