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MSILShellcodeInject

C# port of @mattifestation Invoke-ShellcodeMSIL.ps1

Taken from matts Exploit-Monday post:

While investigating MSIL opcodes a while back, I uncovered a useful opcode - Cpblk. Cpblk is the MSIL equivalent of a memcpy. After writing a .NET method that utilized Cpblk, I immediately thought of a practical use - overwrite a JITed .NET method with shellcode. That way, I could execute shellcode directly without needing to call any Win32 functions. I wrote Invoke-ShellcodeMSIL as an implementation of my idea.

The idea is to define 3 dynamic methods:

• One that would act as a dummy method that we will JIT to later replace with out own shellcode.
• Another method that would act as the memcopy function, we use this one to copy the shellcode to a pointer to the dummy method.
• The last dyn method is used to retrieve the address of the first method to later memcopy our shellcode there.

Overview of execution

1. Create a dummy method that will just XOR 2 values.
2. Define the second dyn method that will act as a memcopy, using the Cpblk opcode.
3. Run the dummy method a bunch of times to force JIT compilation.
4. Use a third dyn method to get the address of the dummy method.
5. Use our second dyn method to copy the final shellcode to the address retrieved in the last step.
6. Run the dummy method again to execute our shellcode
7. Profit!

References:

• https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire/blob/master/data/module_source/code_execution/Invoke-ShellcodeMSIL.ps1
• http://www.exploit-monday.com/2013/04/MSILbasedShellcodeExec.html
• http://www.phrack.org/papers/dotnet_instrumentation.
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflection.emit.opcodes?view=netframework-4.8