Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'd also done the search in 010 Editor looking for the strings in a variety of encodings, but only found it as single byte characters (I thought the strings were stored in UTF-8 so single-byte for these characters.)

But, just to be sure I did do:
$ strings -el --radix=d LinuxMint-17.3-Mate-x64-61951b91.vmem | grep "adam"

But got no hits.

I've done this test with slightly different programs as well, for example using a GtkEntry (which is of course a GtkTextBuffer behind the scenes), and the same findings: only exists in kernel space.

Thanks again,
Adam

On 4 June 2017 at 21:14, Andrew Case <atcuno@gmail.com> wrote:
Have you searched for strings in unicode? It seems like that API uses
unicode strings in the background.

If you are using 'strings' from linux/binutils then add '-el' to extract
the unicode ones.

You can also use linux_yarascan against the pid in question, just set
the wide flag, e.g:

python vol.py --profile=... -f ... -W -Y adam1adam2adam3 -p <pid>

Thanks,
Andrew (@attrc)

On 06/04/2017 02:44 PM, Bridgey theGeek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a "what don't I know?" question...
>
> I have a very simple C program:
>
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>     GtkTextBuffer *buffer;
>     buffer = gtk_text_buffer_new(NULL);
>     gtk_text_buffer_set_text(buffer, "adam1adam2adam3", 15);
>
>     printf("buffer: %p\n", buffer);
>
>     getchar();
>     return 0;
> }
>
> Then the following to try and locate the strings in memory:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> $ strings --radix=d LinuxMint-17.3-Mate-x64-61951b91.vmem | fgrep
> adam1adam2adam3 >/tmp/s
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> $ cat /tmp/s
> 195393652 adam1adam2adam3
> 204175816 adam1adam2adam3
> 851998836 adam1adam2adam3
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> $ ~/src/volatility/vol.py -f LinuxMint-17.3-Mate-x64-61951b91.vmem
> --profile LinuxMint173x64 linux_strings -s /tmp/s
> Volatility Foundation Volatility Framework 2.6
> 195393652 [kernel:88000ba57874] adam1adam2adam3
> 204175816 [kernel:88000c2b79c8] adam1adam2adam3
> 851998836 [kernel:880032c87874] adam1adam2adam3
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Why on earth would the string only be located in Kernel space??
>
> I've been digging into Gtk for quite some time now to try and solve this
> and think I understand that in Gtk, text is stored as GtkTextLineSegments.
> The memory for a GtkTextLineSegment is allocated via g_slice_alloc and the
> actual text copied to the allocated space via an ordinary memcpy (See:
> https://github.com/GNOME/gtk/blob/406db15066f121c2b9910691f92e58
> 41b30e0311/gtk/gtktextsegment.c#L190-L210)
>
>
> I've proved the text really is here by editing the text in the VMEM file in
> a hex editor and then resuming the VM - sure enough the text is updated to
> reflect the changes.
>
> I could just about understand the text being in Kernel space AND user space
> because perhaps its sent to the X server or something, but it appears to
> ONLY be in Kernel space.
>
> What don't I know??
>
> Many thanks,
> Adam
>
>
>
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