This utility will search in a binary or core dump for a user supplied string and return the exact location in memory.
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/*
* 0x4553 - ElectronicSouls - 0x4553
* search in a binary or core dump for a user supplied string and get the exact location in memory.
* idea is based on sectorx's segment.c which is much better, but this was made for fun and works well so wtf :)
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <elf.h>
void Header(int fd)
{
Elf32_Ehdr ehdr;
lseek(fd,0,SEEK_SET);
read(fd,&ehdr,sizeof(Elf32_Ehdr));
fprintf(stderr,"ELF Binary Header:\n");
fprintf(stderr,"ident..: %s\n",ehdr.e_ident);
fprintf(stderr,"type...: ");
switch (ehdr.e_type){
case 2:
printf("Executable\n");
break;
case 4:
printf("Core\n");
break;
default:
printf("Invalid File!\n");
exit(1);
break;
}
fprintf(stderr,"\n");
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
struct stat st_str;
Elf32_Ehdr *elf_hdr;
Elf32_Phdr *p_hdr;
char *file_buf;
int fd = 0,
i = 0,
e = 0,
s;
fprintf(stderr,"\n[MemLocate]\n");
if(argc<3) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s [core] [string]\n", argv[0]);
return(-1);
}
if((fd=open(argv[1],O_RDONLY))<0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open file!\n");
return(-1);
}
fprintf(stderr,"%s has a valid format!\n",argv[1]);
fprintf(stderr,"trying to locate string: %s\n\n",argv[2]);
fstat(fd,&st_str);
file_buf=(char *)malloc(st_str.st_size);
memset(file_buf,0,st_str.st_size);
if (read(fd,file_buf,st_str.st_size)<0) {
fprintf(stderr, "error! read() failed..\n");
free(file_buf);
close(fd);
return(-1);
}
elf_hdr = (Elf32_Ehdr *)file_buf;
Header(fd);
for (i=0; i < elf_hdr->e_phnum; i++)
{
p_hdr = (Elf32_Phdr *)
(file_buf+elf_hdr->e_phoff+(i*elf_hdr->e_phentsize));
for (e = p_hdr->p_offset;
e < p_hdr->p_offset+p_hdr->p_filesz;
e++)
if(!strncmp(file_buf+e,argv[2],strlen(argv[2]))){
fprintf(stderr, "[String found at: 0x%08x]\n",
((p_hdr->p_vaddr+e) - p_hdr->p_offset));
}
}
fprintf(stderr,"\n");
free(file_buf);
close(fd);
exit(0);
}