MITRE ATT&CKtechnique

T1631 Process Injection

Published 2022-03-30 Modified 2025-10-24 Official page ↗
Domain
mobile
Tactics
Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
Platforms
Android, iOS
Version
1.1
Created
2022-03-30

Description

Adversaries may inject code into processes in order to evade process-based defenses or even elevate privileges. Process injection is a method of executing arbitrary code in the address space of a separate live process. Running code in the context of another process may allow access to the process's memory, system/network resources, and possibly elevated privileges. Execution via process injection may also evade detection from security products since the execution is masked under a legitimate process. Both Android and iOS have no legitimate way to achieve process injection. The only way this is possible is by abusing existing root access or exploiting a vulnerability.

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