pamspy - Credentials Dumper for Linux using eBPF

pamspy leverage eBPF technologies to achieve an equivalent work of 3snake.

It will track a particular userland function inside the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) library, used by many critical applications to handle authentication like:

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sudo
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sshd
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passwd
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gnome
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x11
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How to launch?

pamspy is built as a static binary without any dependencies, and available on the release page.

Usage: pamspy [OPTION...]
pamspy

Uses eBPF to dump secrets use by PAM (Authentication) module
By hooking the pam_get_authtok function in libpam.so

USAGE: ./pamspy -p $(/usr/sbin/ldconfig -p | grep libpam.so | cut -d ' ' -f4) -d /var/log/trace.0

  -d, --daemon=PATH TO OUTPUT CREDENTIALS
                             Start pamspy in daemon mode and output in the file
                             passed as argument
  -p, --path=PATH            Path to the libpam.so file
  -r, --print-headers        Print headers of the program
  -v, --verbose              Verbose mode
  -?, --help                 Give this help list
      --usage                Give a short usage message
  -V, --version              Print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional
for any corresponding short options.

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