Her hands went cold. Process hollowing was an act of digital ventriloquism. A legitimate Windows process—svchost, the trusted workhorse—had been created, paused, and its internal code stripped out like the meat from an eggshell. Then, the attacker's malicious code was injected into the hollow shell. When it resumed, Task Manager saw "svchost.exe" running happily. But inside, it was a stranger wearing its face.
Other analysis tools include ** Rekall** and commercial suites like . windows memory scan
A second anomaly bloomed.
They weren't just in Karen's computer. They were using it as a catapult. From here, they'd scrape cached admin credentials from LSASS. Then they'd hop to the Domain Controller. And from the DC, they owned everything. Every file, every email, every backup. Her hands went cold