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MimiPenguin

Disclosed
05/23/2018
Created
09/19/2022

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`.

Author(s)

  • huntergregal
  • bcoles <bcoles@gmail.com>
  • Shelby Pace

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86, x64, aarch64

Development

Module Options

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