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new 1.0.3 Mar 10, 2025

#678 in Unix APIs


Used in emdumper

GPL-3.0 license

6KB

Contains (ELF exe/lib, 2KB) assets/emd_ebpf_prebuild

emd

The eBPF memory dumper is able to dump the physical memory on a linux machine, using an eBPF filter.
This works even the kernel is in lock down mode (integrity) or /proc/kcore is not available on system.
You need root privileges to use this tool.

Prerequisites

  1. stable rust toolchains: rustup toolchain install stable
  2. nightly rust toolchains: rustup toolchain install nightly --component rust-src
  3. bpf-linker: cargo install bpf-linker

build

cargo build --release

install via cargo

cargo install emdumper

usage

sudo ./emd -o output-file.bin

to show all options, you can use

./emd -h

Dependencies

~3.5–6MB
~111K SLoC