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Process Injection

Process injection is the technique of running attacker-controlled code inside the memory space of another, often trusted, Windows process. This lesson explains the mechanism, the major categories of injection, what the attacker gains in terms of evasion and persistence, and how to communicate the risk clearly in interviews, reports, and stakeholder conversations.

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What you'll learn

  • Process injection
  • Host process
  • Classic remote-thread injection
  • Process hollowing
  • Reflective DLL injection
  • Behavioral detection

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