Gargoyle
May 14, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
Gargoyle
Gargoyle is a historical Windows research proof of concept for temporal memory state. The original Win32/x86 implementation remains the canonical proof: a benign action is observable during a small work window, while the relevant code region spends its dormant interval non-executable before timer/APC re-entry.
The refreshed repository keeps that history central while adding sibling x64,
ARM64, and ARM64EC demonstrations, a reproducible validation harness, and clearer
evidence language. It also documents the corrected timer/APC path around
SleepEx(INFINITE, TRUE).
Gargoyle does not claim invisibility or product bypass. It is not a loader, operator workflow, or deployment guide, and it does not provide persistence, injection, credential access, networking, or C2 guidance.
Read Next
- Documentation home for reader paths and project orientation.
- Responsible use for scope boundaries and non-goals.
- Quickstart for the shortest safe build and validation path.
- Timer APC and SleepEx for the corrected alertable-wait evidence path.
- Architecture comparison for what each sibling demonstration validates and does not prove.
- Validation overview for the evidence language used across the repository.
- Research references and lineage for source mapping and relationship boundaries.
Architecture And Evidence Boundaries
- Win32/x86 is the canonical historical implementation.
- x64, ARM64, and ARM64EC are sibling demonstrations, not replacements for the original design.
- The x64 sibling is not a direct port of the original x86
mshtml.dllgadget/trampoline path. - x86/x64 live validation uses two benign MessageBoxes. That validates initial execution and later controlled re-entry, but not callback identity or every memory-protection transition.
- ARM64 and ARM64EC headless validation also checks completed-round and callback-round counters, giving stronger callback-delivery evidence.
- ARM64EC exercises the EC-code allocation behavior used by this demo. It does not demonstrate mixed x64 DLL interop or prove every ARM64EC dynamic-code pattern.
Local Gate
uv sync --all-groups
just ci