---
id: 8101
title: "Re-Animating ActivitySurrogateSelector"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/red-teaming/re-animating-activitysurrogateselector/"
published_at: "2019-06-04T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["deserialization", "red-team", "dotnet", "gadget", "activitysurrogateselector", "exploit-dev", "framework-48"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8101"
lang: en
---

# Re-Animating ActivitySurrogateSelector

## Summary

Nick Landers revives the ActivitySurrogateSelector .NET deserialization gadget, patched in .NET Framework 4.8, detailing a workaround that restores arbitrary in-memory assembly loading.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/red-teaming/re-animating-activitysurrogateselector/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8101