Memory forensics techniques for process injection

Since one of the main reasons to use process injection is to hide malware presence from memory forensics tools, it gets quite tricky to detect it using them. In this section, we will take a look at different techniques that we can use to detect different types of process injections.

Here, we will be using a tool called Volatility. This tool is a free, open source program for memory forensics that can analyze memory dumps from infected machines. So, let’s get started.

Technique 1 – Detecting code injection and reflective DLL injection

The main red flag that helps us to detect injected code inside a process is that the allocated memory that contains the shellcode or the loaded DLL always has the EXECUTE permission and doesn’t represent a mapped file. When a module (an executable file) gets loaded using the Windows PE loader, it gets loaded with an IMAGE flag to represent that it’s a memory map of an...