On 5/7/15 3:03 PM, Torres, Geoff (Cyber Security)
wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the 'me too' response, but I'm having this exact same
problem. However, the main difference is that I'm using a 'QEMU'
memory image (Hex dump sig is QEVM in the first 4 bytes) from a cloud
instance.
I've converted these in the past using the 'lqs2mem' tool written by
Juerg Haefliger and Andrew Tappert and it's worked perfectly for the
'netscan' and 'ps' type plugins. However, I haven't needed to dump
processes before and look for specific strings. I can locate the
strings in the converted image, but it's not translating to the
processes that are identified by the 'strings' plugin.
Here's the steps I've been taking -
## Memory dump info
ll memory_dump
-rw------- 1 geoff citsirt
7579914273 Apr 27 13:36 memory_dump
file memory_dump
memory_dump: QEMU suspend
to disk image
xxd memory_dump | head -n1
0000000: 5145
564d 0000 0003 0100 0000 0105 626c QEVM..........bl
## Convert the dump
lqs2mem -w pc.ram memory_dump memory_dump.ram
section = pc.ram size = 8192 [MB]
8589934592 [bytes] section = pc.bios size
= 128 [KB] 131072 [bytes] section = pc.rom
size = 128 [KB] 131072 [bytes] section = vga.vram
size = 16 [MB] 16777216 [bytes] section =
0000:00:02.0/cirrus_vga.rom size = 64 [KB] 65536
[bytes] Wrote 8589934592 bytes from section 'pc.ram' to file
memory_dump.ram
## Create the strings file
strings -a -t d memory_dump.ram >
memory_dump.ram.strings
strings -a -t d -el memory_dump.ram >>
memory_dump.ram.strings
## Create the volatility strings file
python
/data/download/apps/forensic_tools/volatility/vol.py -f
memory_dump.ram --profile=Win2008SP2x64 strings -s
--output-file=memory_dump.ram.vol.strings
ll memory_dump.ram.strings
memory_dump.ram.vol.strings
-rw-rw-r-- 1 geoff citsirt 2914258187 May 7 08:58
memory_dump.ram.strings -rw-rw-r-- 1 geoff citsirt 4292775089 May
7 12:17 memory_dump.ram.vol.strings
## '<Search_String>' is found in both string files as expected
fgrep <Search_String>
memory_dump.ram.strings
memory_dump.ram.vol.strings
memory_dump.ram.strings:183190042
<Search_String>
memory_dump.ram.vol.strings:183190042 [3156:0189321a] <Search_String>
## Dump process 3156 as identified by volatility
python
/data/download/apps/forensic_tools/volatility/vol.py -f
memory_dump.ram --profile=Win2008SP2x64 procdump -p 3156 -D
processes -m
Volatility Foundation Volatility Framework 2.4 Process(V)
ImageBase Name Result ------------------
------------------ -------------------- ------ 0xfffffa800a4e6370
0x0000000000400000 iwproxy.exe OK: executable.3156.exe
ll processes/executable.3156.exe
-rw-rw-r-- 1 geoff citsirt 3248128 May 7 12:35
processes/executable.3156.exe
## '<Search_String>' not found in the dumped executable
strings -a processes/executable.3156.exe | fgrep
<Search_String>
strings -a -el processes/executable.3156.exe | fgrep
<Search_String>
I've tried many different variations of the above steps and all
have the same results.
According to what I've read in this thread is that the issue is to
make sure the original dump is properly converted. How can I do
that? 'lqs2mem' has limited options.
Any ideas on what I can do differently to get this to work?
Thanks,
Geoff
Don't be afraid to tell me I'm doing something stupid... :-)
-----Original Message----- From:
vol-users-bounces(a)volatilityfoundation.org
[mailto:vol-users-bounces@volatilityfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Ligh Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6:49 AM To: Bridgey theGeek Cc:
vol-users(a)volatilityfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Vol-users] Output of
strings not found in memdump output
Perfect! Glad to hear all is good in the world ;-)
MHL
On 3/24/15 5:05 AM, Bridgey theGeek wrote:
Awesome, thanks Michael.
I generated a raw dump as follows, with the vmsn
and vmem files
in the same folder: $ python vol.py -f winxp.vmem
--profile=WinXPSP2x86 imagecopy -O winxp.raw
Then ran strings again (having generated a new
input text file
because of course the offsets will be different): $ python vol.py
-f winxp.raw --profile=WinXPSP2x86 strings -s pk.txt
I was then able to find the banner at the offsets
reported by
strings. And all was good in the world.
Thank you very much for the support.
Adam
On 23 March 2015 at 19:39, Michael Ligh
<michael.ligh(a)mnin.org
<mailto:michael.ligh@mnin.org>> wrote:
Hey Adam,
A few things:
* Yes, vmss2core creates a windows crash dump *
You can use
volatility on the original vmem/vmss by doing the following:
* make sure both vmem and vmss files are in the
same dir * make
sure they have the same base name (i.e. test.vmem and test.vmss)
* run your volatility plugins against the vmem
In this case, it would also be required to
generate a raw memory
dump before running strings. So you would use imagecopy on the
vmem.
LMK if that helps! Michael
> On 3/23/15 10:51 AM, Bridgey theGeek wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> *sigh* When will I learn to check the origin
of my samples?!
> The guy who provided me with the sample tells
me that he took a
> snapshot of a VMWare machine and then used vss2core to convert
> it. I BELIEVE that makes it into a Windows Memory Core Dump..?
> I got hold of the original vmem and vmsn
files. Trying to use
> imagecopy on the vmsn just replicated the input file. I think
> the header is not what Volatility would expect: $ xxd Windows\
> XP\ Pro\ SP2\ \(32-bit\)-Snapshot49.vmsn |head 0000000: d2be
> d2be 0800 0000 6300 0000 4368 6563 ........c...Chec 0000010:
> 6b70 6f69 6e74 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 kpoint..........
> 0000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> ................ 0000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 ................ 0000040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> fc1e 0000 ................ 0000050: 0000 0000 ab03 0000 0000
> 0000 4775 6573 ............Gues 0000060: 7456 6172 7300 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 tVars........... 0000070: 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0000080: 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0000090: 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 a722 0000 ............."..
> Does that mean I can't use this with
Volatility?
> Thank you, Adam
> On 23 March 2015 at 14:57, Michael Ligh
<michael.ligh(a)mnin.org
> <mailto:michael.ligh@mnin.org> <mailto:michael.ligh@mnin.org
> <mailto:michael.ligh@mnin.org>>> wrote:
>
Hey Adam,
> We forgot to ask if the sample was a raw
memory dump. For
> example:
> $ xxd ~/Desktop/memory.dmp | less
> 0000000: 5041 4745 4455 4d50 0f00 0000 280a
0000
> PAGEDUMP....(... 0000010: 8001 6c07 00c0 e680 a031 5580 5892
> 5580 ..l......1U.X.U. 0000020: 4c01 0000 0100 0000 8000 0000
> 5444 4f00 L...........TDO. 0000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 5041 4745 ............PAGE 0000040: 5041 4745 5041 4745
> 5041 4745 5041 4745 PAGEPAGEPAGEPAGE
> If its something like a crash dump,
hibernation, etc then the
> file format headers throw off the offsets. You can convert
> those special file types into a raw memory dump with the
> imagecopy plugin and then your strings translations should be
> accurate.
> Cheers! MHL
>> On 3/23/15 8:54 AM, Bridgey theGeek
wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>> I was certain I was running the latest
version, but just to
>> be sure I grabbed the latest version. Same result, same
>> offsets.
>> I can make the sample available, but more
than happy to do
>> whatever debugging needs doing (if I can!)
>>
Adam
>> On 23 March 2015 at 13:03, Andrew Case
<atcuno(a)gmail.com
>> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com
>> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>>
<mailto:atcuno@gmail.com <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>
>> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>>>> wrote:
>> Are you using the latest git checkout of
Volatility or the
>> 2.4 release? Can you try the latest checkout and re-run
>> Volatility strings (you can run it on just the offsets from
>> PID 123 to make it faster).
>> If you are already on the latest checkout
then we will need
>> to debug further.
>> Thanks, Andrew (@attrc)
>>>> On 03/23/2015 04:38 AM, Bridgey theGeek wrote:
>>>> Thanks Andrew:
>>>>
>>>> python vol.py --profile=WinXPSP2x86 -f memory.dmp volshell
>>>> -p 123 Volatility Foundation Volatility Framework 2.4
>>>> Current context: myapp.exe @ 0x822042f8, pid=123, ppid=392
>>> DTB=0x76c0040
>>>> Welcome to volshell! Current memory image is:
>>>> file:///home/memory.dmp To get help, type 'hh()'
>>>>>>> db(0x75b6b4d8)
>>>> 0x75b6b4d8 c3 7c 15 c7 85 00 ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 75 09 8d
>>>> .|...........u.. 0x75b6b4e8 85 0c ff ff ff 50 ff 17 39
>>>> 9d 00 ff ff ff 89 85 .....P..9....... 0x75b6b4f8 30 ff ff
>>>> ff 74 12 6a 0c 8d 85 c4 fe ff ff 50 6a 0...t.j.......Pj
>>>> 0x75b6b508 07 6a fe e8 ea 92 ff ff 83 bd 28 ff ff ff 0c 0f
>>>> .j........(..... 0x75b6b518 84 8c 59 00 00 e9 18 ff ff ff
>>>> 90 90 47 00 6c 00 ..Y.........G.l. 0x75b6b528 6f 00 62 00
>>>> 61 00 6c 00 5c 00 54 00 65 00 72 00 o.b.a.l.\.T.e.r.
>>>> 0x75b6b538 6d 00 53 00 72 00 76 00 52 00 65 00 61 00 64 00
>>>> m.S.r.v.R.e.a.d. 0x75b6b548 79 00 45 00 76 00 65 00 6e 00
>>>> 74 00 00 00 90 90 y.E.v.e.n.t.....
>>>>
>>>> Nope, still no banner. But it is identical to what I find
>>>> at
>>> 0x1a34d8 in
>>>> 123.dmp. (As you'd expect.) Double-checked that I was
>>>> searching Unicode and ASCII - still no luck.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm.
>>>>
>>>
Adam
>>>>
>>>> On 23 March 2015 at 04:02, Andrew Case <atcuno(a)gmail.com
> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>
>> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>>
>>> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>
> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>>>
>>>> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>
> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>>
>> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>
> <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com <mailto:atcuno@gmail.com>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can do you:
>>>>
>>>> vol.py ... volshell -p 123
>>>>
>>>> Then in volshell do:
>>>>
>>>> db(0x75b6b4d8)
>>>>
>>>> And see if you get the banner printed at the beginning?
>>>>
>>>> Also, how are you searching 123.dmp? Did you search ascii
>>>> &
>>> unicode
>>>> (most common error)
>>>>
>
>> Thanks, Andrew (@attrc)
>>>>
>>>>> On 03/20/2015 03:59 PM, Bridgey theGeek wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't quite see what's wrong with my logic here, but I
>>>>> must be
>>>> missing
>>>>> something. Hoping someone can help me out.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for a private key in a memory sample
>>>>> (WinXPSP2x86). Specifically, to find out which process/es
>>>>> is/are accessing it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can find the key by searching the raw memory dump
>>> (memory.dmp).
>>>>> As you might expect it's between: -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE
>>>>> KEY----- -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
>>>>>
>>>>> I generated an offset:string file by using strings. Then,
>>>>> using the strings plugin I get this output: $ python
>>>>> vol.py -f memory.dmp --profile=WinXPSP2x86 strings
>>> -s pk.txt
>>>>> Volatility Foundation Volatility Framework 2.4 188435934
>>>>> [FREE MEMORY:-1] -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
>>>>> 188435968 [FREE MEMORY:-1] -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
>>>>> 317375704 [kernel:d2ab24d8] -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE
>>>>> KEY----- 317376575 [kernel:d2ab283f] -----END RSA PRIVATE
>>>>> KEY----- 417203416 [123:75b6b4d8] -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE
>>>>> KEY----- 417204287 [123:75b6b83f] -----END RSA PRIVATE
>>>>> KEY----- 419888606 [FREE MEMORY:-1] -----BEGIN RSA
>>>>> PRIVATE KEY----- 419888640 [FREE MEMORY:-1] -----END RSA
>>>>> PRIVATE KEY-----
>>>>>
>>>>> Lovely. So I now do a memdump of process 123: $ python
>>>>> vol.py -f memory.dmp --profile=WinXPSP2x86 memdump
>>> --pid=123
>>>>> --dump-dir=123 Volatility Foundation Volatility
>>>>> Framework 2.4
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