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Atom Bombing Process Manipulating
Atom Bombing is a technique that utilizes Windows Atom Tables, which provide a global storage mechanism for strings, to inject malicious code into a target process.
The technique involves storing a shellcode in an Atom Table, then using the NtQueueApcThread
function to force the targeted process to access the specific Atom, causing the injection to occur. To bypass Data Execution …
Breaking BaDDEr Process Manipulating
Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) is a protocol that allows applications to share data with each other. The Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library (DDEML) is a set of functions that facilitate data sharing using the DDE protocol. DDE and DDEML are commonly used in Microsoft Office to enable data to be shared between applications. In October 2017, a vulnerability was discovered …
Process Injection: Extra Window Memory Injection Defense Evasion [Mitre]
Adversaries may inject malicious code into process via Extra Window Memory (EWM) in order to evade process-based defenses as well as possibly elevate privileges. EWM injection is a method of executing arbitrary code in the address space of a separate live process.
Before creating a window, graphical Windows-based processes must prescribe to or register a windows class, which stipulate appearance …
Execution Guardrails: Environmental Keying Defense Evasion [Mitre]
Adversaries may environmentally key payloads or other features of malware to evade defenses and constraint execution to a specific target environment. Environmental keying uses cryptography to constrain execution or actions based on adversary supplied environment specific conditions that are expected to be present on the target. Environmental keying is an implementation of Execution Guardrails that utilizes cryptographic techniques for deriving …
ProcEnvInjection - Remote code injection by abusing process environment strings Process Manipulating
This method allows to inject custom code into a remote process without using WriteProcessMemory
- It will use the lpEnvironment
parameter in CreateProcess
to copy the code into the target process. This technique can be used to load a DLL into a remote process, or simply execute a block of code.
The lpEnvironment
parameter in CreateProcess
allows us to specify …
Big File Antivirus/EDR Evasion
Because of the imposed file size limit, you can trick the scanner into skipping a file by changing the file’s size to make it larger than the hard-coded size limit. This file size limit applies especially with heuristic engines based on static data (data extracted from the portable executable, or PE, header). This is an old trick still apply in …
Subvert Trust Controls: Mark-of-the-Web Bypass Defense Evasion [Mitre]
Adversaries may abuse specific file formats to subvert Mark-of-the-Web (MOTW) controls. In Windows, when files are downloaded from the Internet, they are tagged with a hidden NTFS Alternate Data Stream (ADS) named Zone.Identifier with a specific value known as the MOTW. Files that are tagged with MOTW are protected and cannot perform certain actions. For example, starting in MS Office …
Process Ghosting Process Manipulating
Process Ghosting is a technique used to bypass detection by manipulating the executable image when a process is loaded.
Windows attempts to prevent mapped executables from being modified. Once a file is mapped into an image section, attempts to open it with FILE_WRITE_DATA
(to modify it) will fail with ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION
. Deletion attempts via FILE_DELETE_ON_CLOSE
/FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE
fail with ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION …
Indicator Removal: Clear Persistence Defense Evasion [Mitre]
Adversaries may clear artifacts associated with previously established persistence on a host system to remove evidence of their activity. This may involve various actions, such as removing services, deleting executables, Modify Registry, Plist File Modification, or other methods of cleanup to prevent defenders from collecting evidence of their persistent presence.
In some instances, artifacts of persistence may also be removed …
ConsoleWindowClass Process Manipulating
One method that has been used to achieve process injection is by manipulating the User Data of a window object.
The User Data of a window is a small amount of memory that is usually used to store a pointer to a class object. This memory can be set using the SetWindowLongPtr
API and the GWLP_USERDATA parameter. In the case …