mimipenguin
A tool to dump the login password from the current linux desktop user. Adapted after the idea behind the popular Windows tool mimikatz.
- Special thanks to pugilist for cleaning up PID extraction and testing.
Details
Takes advantage of cleartext credentials in memory by dumping the process and extracting lines that have a high probability of containing cleartext passwords. Will attempt to calculate each word's probability by checking hashes in /etc/shadow, hashes in memory, and regex searches.
Requires
- root permissions
Supported/Tested
- Kali 4.3.0 (rolling) x64 (Gnome Desktop)
- Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS x64 (Gnome Desktop)
- Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 LTS x64 (Gnome Desktop)
- VSFTPd 3.0.3-8+b1 (Active FTP client connections)
- Apache2 2.4.25-3 (Active/Old HTTP BASIC AUTH Sessions)
- openssh-server 1:7.3p1-1 (Active SSH connections - sudo usage)
Notes
- Password moves in memory - still honing in on 100% effectiveness
- Plan on expanding support and other credential locations
- Working on expanding to non-desktop environments
- Known bug - sometimes gcore hangs the script, this is a problem with gcore
- Open to pull requests and community research
- LDAP research (nscld winbind etc) planned for future
#Contact
- Twitter: @huntergregal
- Website: huntergregal.com
- Github: huntergregal