NimHollow

Playing around with the Process Hollowing technique using Nim.

Features:

• Direct syscalls for triggering Windows Native API functions with NimlineWhispers or NimlineWhispers2.
• Shellcode encryption/decryption with AES in CTR mode.
• Simple sandbox detection methods from the OSEP course by @offensive-security.

DISCLAIMER. All information contained in this repository is provided for educational and research purposes only. The author is not responsible for any illegal use of this tool.

Usage

Installation:

~$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/snovvcrash/NimHollow && cd NimHollow
~$ git submodule update --init --recursive
~$ nimble install winim nimcrypto
~$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
~$ sudo apt install upx -y

Example:

~$ msfvenom -p windows/x64/messagebox TITLE='MSF' TEXT='Hack the Planet!' EXITFUNC=thread -f raw -o shellcode.bin
~$ python3 NimHollow.py shellcode.bin -i 'C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe' -o injector --upx --rm [--whispers2]

Help:

usage: NimHollow.py [-h] [-i IMAGE] [-o OUTPUT] [--whispers2] [--debug] [--upx] [--rm] shellcode_bin

positional arguments:
  shellcode_bin         path to the raw shellcode file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i IMAGE, --image IMAGE
                        process image to hollow (default "C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe")
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        output filename
  --whispers2           use NimlineWhispers2 to generate syscalls.nim
  --debug               do not strip debug messages from Nim binary
  --upx                 compress Nim binary with upx
  --rm                  remove Nim files after compiling the binary

Process Hollowing in Slides

1. Create the target process (e.g., svchost.exe) in a suspended state.

2. Query created process to extract its base address pointer from PEB (Process Environment Block).

3. Read 8 bytes of memory (for 64-bit architecture) pointed by the image base address pointer in order to get the actual value of the image base address.

4. Read 0x200 bytes of the loaded EXE image and parse PE structure to get the EntryPoint address.

5. Write the shellcode to the EntryPoint address and resume thread execution.

Credits

• @ajpc500 for the NimlineWhispers and NimlineWhispers2 projects.
• @byt3bl33d3r for the OffensiveNim repository.
• @S3cur3Th1sSh1t and @chvancooten for Nim code snippets.