Transacted Hollowing

Transacted Hollowing (classic)

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

More info here.

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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.

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

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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)

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.