🛠️ Process injection
This technique aims at increasing privilege and/or escaping the protections applied to the processes
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Instead of simply executing the shellcode, it has become common to find tricks to hide its active load. The classic schema looks like this:
// encrypt the shellcode
encrypt(ciphered, SHELLCODE, SHELLCODE_LENGTH, KEY);
// decrypt + handoff
decrypt(deciphered, ciphered, SHELLCODE_LENGTH, KEY);
handoff(deciphered, SHELLCODE_LENGTH);
After the malicious code is injected into a legitimate process, attackers also can access legitimate processes' resources such as process memory, system/network resources, and elevated privilegespicussecurity.com
Process injection exists in many forms, often based on legitimate services.
The techniques mainly used are :
all these methods and many others are also described in Ired's article : https://www.ired.team/offensive-security/code-injection-process-injection
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