Extra Window Memory Injection Process Manipulating

Before creating a window, graphical Windows-based processes must prescribe to or register a windows class, which stipulate appearance and behavior (via windows procedures, which are functions that handle input/output of data).

Registration of new windows classes can include a request for up to 40 bytes of Extra Window Memory (EWM) to be appended to the allocated memory of each …

IAT Hooking Process Manipulating

IAT hooking is a way to run malicious code by modifying the Import Address Table of a specific executable. Consisting of replacing one legitimate function from imported DLL by a malicious one.

IAT hooking and inline hooking are generally known as userland rootkits. IAT hooking is a technique that malware uses to change the import address table. When a …

PE Injection Process Manipulating

Instead of passing the address of the LoadLibrary, malware can copy its malicious code into an existing open process and force it to execute (either via a small shellcode, or by calling CreateRemoteThread).

One advantage of PE injection over the LoadLibrary technique is that the malware does not have to drop a malicious DLL on the disk. The …

Propagate Process Manipulating

This technique involves modifying the internal properties of a window in order to intercept and modify or monitor the behavior of the window when it receives messages. To do this, an application creates a buffer containing shellcode and injects it into the target process.

Then, it modifies the internal structure used by the specific properties, such as UxSubclassInfo and …

Ctrl+Inject Process Manipulating

The "Control Signal Handler Callback" technique involves injecting malicious code into a process by using a callback function for control signal handlers. When a control signal, such as Ctrl+C, is received by a process, the system creates a new thread to execute a function to handle the signal. This thread is typically created by the legitimate process "csrss.exe" in the …

COM Hijacking Process Manipulating

COM hijacking is a technique used by adversaries to insert malicious code into the Windows operating system through the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM).

COM is a system that allows software components to interact with each other, and adversaries can abuse this system to execute their own code in place of legitimate software. To achieve this, they alter references …

EditWordBreakProc Process Manipulating

Edit controls, including Rich Edit controls, are a common type of Windows control found in many applications. They can be embedded directly in the application or as subclassed windows.

When these controls display text in multiline mode, they use a callback function called EditWordBreakProc. This function is called every time the control needs to do something related to …

FLIRT Signatures Evasion Anti-Disassembly

FLIRT Signature evasion is a technique used by malware to hide malicious code inside legitimate functions from known libraries. FLIRT (Fast Library Identification and Recognition Technology) is a database that contains signature patterns for identifying known functions from legitimate libraries.

Malware authors can abuse these signatures by modifying or adding specific bytes to the code, so that it appears …

Hide Artifacts: Run Virtual Instance Defense Evasion [Mitre]

Adversaries may carry out malicious operations using a virtual instance to avoid detection. A wide variety of virtualization technologies exist that allow for the emulation of a computer or computing environment. By running malicious code inside of a virtual instance, adversaries can hide artifacts associated with their behavior from security tools that are unable to monitor activity inside the virtual …

Hijack Execution Flow: KernelCallbackTable Defense Evasion [Mitre]

Adversaries may abuse the KernelCallbackTable of a process to hijack its execution flow in order to run their own payloads. The KernelCallbackTable can be found in the Process Environment Block (PEB) and is initialized to an array of graphic functions available to a GUI process once user32.dll is loaded.

An adversary may hijack the execution flow of a process …

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