The article “Living off the Process” details a technique to inject and execute shellcode into a remote Windows process by reusing existing RWX memory, ROP gadgets, and threads within that process, avoiding conventional memory allocation and lowering detection footprint.
The article presents EDR-Freeze, a user-mode tool exploiting Windows Error Reporting to suspend EDR and antivirus processes by abusing MiniDumpWriteDump and WerFaultSecure, leaving security agents in a “coma” and creating a blind spot for attacks.
Proof-of-Concept (PoC) for CVE-2026-20817, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Error Reporting (WER) service. The vulnerability allows an authenticated low-privileged user to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by sending specially crafted ALPC messages to the WER service.
Windows authentication coercion is still a powerful AD primitive: it forces predictable auth flows and enables relay chains. Modern mitigations reduce easy abuse, but when combined with AD CS o
