Awesome Windows Drivers Development

A list of useful ressources to develop windows drivers

This list also aims at hinting the hard-to-find resources required to learn how to develop windows drivers.
I sorted section items by concept difficulty

How to contribute

Contributors are welcome !
Simply open a PR ☺️

Tools :

Commonly used tools for driver development

• WDK
• SysInternals
• OSR Tools
• WinDbg
• Nefarius HID Tools Collection

Learning :

• Repositories

  • Learn Drivers by making a virtual disk
  • OSR Beginner lab
  • Windows Drivers docs
  • Writing kernel drivers for advanced persistence
  • USB/IP Drivers

• Websites

  • User mode vs Kernel mode
  • Microsoft-Learn WDF
  • Best Practices for Windows Driver Developers
  • Develop and Test Complex Driver Code in User Mode
  • Red Team Notes
  • WinDbg A-Z
  • CodeMachine blog

• Useful CheatSheets

  • IOCTL Lists
  • Device IDs
  • NTSTATUS return codes

• Youtube

  • Device Driver Development using WDF
  • RicochetTech
  • Windows Kernel Programming Fundamentals
  • GuidedHacking Kernel drivers

Books :

• Pavel Yosifovich Books
• Developing Drivers with WDF
• Programming with the Microsoft WDM