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ShimMe — PoC for Windows privilege escalation and code injection using OfficeClickToRun RPC and undocumented shim manipulation to inject DLLs into SYSTEM processes. | Kitploit
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ShimMe

PoC for Windows privilege escalation and code injection using OfficeClickToRun RPC and undocumented shim manipulation to inject DLLs into SYSTEM processes.

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ShimMe

Tools from the DEFCON 32 talk "SHIM me what you got - Manipulating Shim and Office for Code Injection"

Office Injector - Invokes an RPC method in OfficeClickToRun service that will inject a DLL into a suspended process running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM launched by the task scheduler service, thus achieving privilege escalation from administrator to SYSTEM.

Shim Injector - Writes an undocumented shim data structure into the memory of another process that causes apphelp.dll to apply the “Inject Dll” fix on the process without registering a new SDB file on the system, or even writing such file to disk.

Credits

  • David Shandalov
  • Ron Ben Yizhak

References

  • DEF CON talk
  • https://www.deepinstinct.com/blog/SHIM-Me-What-You-Got:-Manipulating-Shim-and-Office-for-Code-Injection
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/opportunistic-locks
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/devnotes/application-compatibility-database
  • https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-15/materials/eu-15-Pierce-Defending-Against-Malicious-Application-Compatibility-Shims-wp.pdf
  • https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-14/materials/Erickson/WP-Asia-14-Erickson-Persist-It-Using-And-Abusing-Microsofts-Fix-It-Patches.pdf
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