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MimiPenguin

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Disclosed
May 23, 2018
Created
Sep 19, 2022

Description

This searches process memory for needles that indicate
where cleartext passwords may be located. If any needles
are discovered in the target process memory, collected
strings in adjacent memory will be hashed and compared
with password hashes found in `/etc/shadow`.

Authors

huntergregal
bcoles [email protected]
Shelby Pace

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86, x64, aarch64

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use post/linux/gather/mimipenguin
    msf post(mimipenguin) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf post(mimipenguin) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf post(mimipenguin) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf post(mimipenguin) > run
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