New subject: [Bug 55165] Age of Empires II Definitive Edition quits on startup, due to WinVerifyTrust() failing on game binaries.

29 Jun 2023


      https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55165
Bug ID: 55165
           Summary: Age of Empires II Definitive Edition quits on startup,
                    due to WinVerifyTrust() failing on game binaries.
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wintrust
          Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org
          Reporter: david@davidgow.net
      Distribution: ---
The latest update of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition no longer runs under
wine and wine derivatives like Proton, Crossover, etc. This is because the
updated version has an anti-tampering check which calls WinVerifyTrust() on all
of the bundled .exe and .dll files (even those the game doesn't use).
Under Wine, WinVerifyTrust() fails with TRUST_E_CERT_SIGNATURE on these PE
files, even though it works on other signed executables.
Patching wine to always return 0 from WinVerifyTrust() allows the game to
start, and to run successfully. See:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3189#issuecomment-1610974028
I've written a simple program which calls WinVerifyTrust() on a file and prints
the error:
(source): https://davidgow.net/stuff/trustchk.c
(x86_64 binary): https://davidgow.net/stuff/trustchk64.exe
The trustchk64.exe binary is signed, so "trustchk64.exe trustchk64.exe" prints:
trustchk64.exe: 0 (Success. )
Running against an unsigned binary gives:
trustchk.exe: 800B0100 (No Signature found in file. )
Running against AoE2:DE's AoE2DE_s.exe file (or any other .exe or .dll from the
game) fails with:
AoE2DE_s.exe: 80096004 (TRUST_E_CERT_SIGNATURE: The signature of the
certificate cannot be verified.)
I've extracted the offending executable's signature with osslsigncode
extract-signature:
https://davidgow.net/stuff/AoE2DE_s.sig
Equally, I've verified the executable signature with osslsigncode:
https://davidgow.net/stuff/AoE2DE_s.sig-verify.txt
The Steam game info for the affected version is:
App ID: 813780
Build ID: 11543327
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[Bug 55165] New: Age of Empires II Definitive Edition quits on startup, due to WinVerifyTrust() failing on game binaries.