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Transacted Hollowing - a PE injection technique, hybrid between ProcessHollowing and ProcessDoppelgänging

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Transacted Hollowing

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Transacted Hollowing (classic)

Transacted Hollowing is a PE injection technique. A hybrid between Process Hollowing and Process Doppelgänging.

transacted hollowing diagram

More info here.


Ghostly Hollowing

Ghostly Hollowing is a similar technique, but using a delete-pending file instead of the transacted file. A hybrid between Process Hollowing and Process Ghosting.

ghostly hollowing diagram


You can switch to build the second variant with the help of the CMake option: GHOSTING. By default, Transacted Hollowing is built.

CMake flag


Characteristics:

  • Payload mapped as MEM_IMAGE (unnamed: not linked to any file)
  • Sections mapped with original access rights (no RWX)
  • Payload connected to PEB as the main module
  • Remote injection supported (but only into a newly created process)

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Supported injections:

If the loader was built as 32 bit:

32 bit payload -> 32 bit target

If the loader was built as 64 bit:

64 bit payload -> 64 bit target
32 bit payload -> 32 bit target

How to use the app:

Supply 2 commandline arguments:

[payload_path] [target_path]

Payload is the PE to be executed impersonating the Target.

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