Procedure examples

Derusbi injects itself into the secure shell (SSH) process.

RATANKBA performs a reflective DLL injection using a given pid.

FinFisher injects itself into various processes depending on whether it is low integrity or high integrity.

Cobalt Strike has the ability to load DLLs via reflective injection.

Taidoor can perform DLL loading.

PoisonIvy can inject a malicious DLL into a process.

TajMahal has the ability to inject DLLs for malicious plugins into running processes.

Carbon has a command to inject code into a process.

Ramsay can use ImprovedReflectiveDLLInjection to deploy components.

Carberp's bootkit can inject a malicious DLL into the address space of running processes.

The FunnyDream FilepakMonitor component can inject into the Bka.exe process using the `VirtualAllocEx`, `WriteProcessMemory` and `CreateRemoteThread` APIs to load the DLL component.

ZxShell is injected into a shared SVCHOST process.

Maze has injected the malware DLL into a target process.

ComRAT has injected its orchestrator DLL into explorer.exe. ComRAT has also injected its communications module into the victim's default browser to make C2 connections appear less suspicious as all network connections will be initiated by the browser process.

Heyoka Backdoor can inject a DLL into rundll32.exe for execution.

Qilin can inject pwndll.dll, a patched DLL from the legitimate DLL WICloader.dll, into svchost.exe for continuous execution.

Socksbot creates a suspended svchost process and injects its DLL into it.

HIDEDRV injects a DLL for Downdelph into the explorer.exe process.

ShadowPad has injected a DLL into svchost.exe.

Gelsemium has the ability to inject DLLs into specific processes.

Lizar has used the PowerKatz plugin that can be loaded into the address space of a PowerShell process through reflective DLL loading.

PowerSploit contains a collection of CodeExecution modules that inject code (DLL, shellcode) into a process.

IronNetInjector has the ability to inject a DLL into running processes, including the IronNetInjector DLL into explorer.exe.

Koadic can perform process injection by using a reflective DLL.

Pupy can migrate into another process using reflective DLL injection.

Duqu will inject itself into different processes to evade detection. The selection of the target process is influenced by the security software that is installed on the system (Duqu will inject into different processes depending on which security suite is installed on the infected host).

Pikabot, following payload decryption, creates a process hard-coded into the dropped (e.g., WerFault.exe) and injects the decrypted core modules into it.

Zeus Panda checks processes on the system and if they meet the necessary requirements, it injects into that process.

Havoc has itself injected into `C:\\Windows\\System32\\Werfault.exe` on targeted systems.

GreyEnergy has a module to inject a PE binary into a remote process.

DUSTPAN can inject its decrypted payload into another process.

Gootloader can use its own PE loader to execute payloads in memory.

InvisiMole can inject its backdoor as a portable executable into a target process.

RustyWater has injected its shellcode into explorer.exe by allocating memory via `VirtualAllocEx`, then by writing the payload via `WriteProcessMemory`.

Carbanak downloads an executable and injects it directly into a new process.

SPAWNCHIMERA has executed only in memory and hooked itself into existing processes on the victim device to include the web process.

Lizar can execute PE files in the address space of the specified process.

Brute Ratel C4 has injected Latrodectus into the Explorer.exe process on comrpomised hosts.

Pikabot can create a suspended instance of a legitimate process (e.g., ctfmon.exe), allocate memory within the suspended process corresponding to Pikabot's core module, then redirect execution flow via `SetContextThread` API so that when the thread resumes the Pikabot core module is executed.

Gazer performs thread execution hijacking to inject its orchestrator into a running thread from a remote process.

Trojan.Karagany can inject a suspended thread of its own process into a new process and initiate via the ResumeThread API.

Waterbear can use thread injection to inject shellcode into the process of security software.

Bumblebee can use asynchronous procedure call (APC) injection to execute commands received from C2.

Sardonic can use the `QueueUserAPC` API to execute shellcode on a compromised machine.

HeartCrypt has the ability to use `NtQueueApcThread` as an alternate method for process injection.

BADHATCH can inject itself into a new `svchost.exe -k netsvcs` process using the asynchronous procedure call (APC) queue.

InvisiMole can inject its code into a trusted process via the APC queue.

IcedID has used ZwQueueApcThread to inject itself into remote processes.

Saint Bot has written its payload into a newly-created `EhStorAuthn.exe` process using `ZwWriteVirtualMemory` and executed it using `NtQueueApcThread` and `ZwAlertResumeThread`.

Attor performs the injection by attaching its code into the APC queue using NtQueueApcThread API.