#memory #physical-memory #acquisition #forensics #security

app emdumper

A tool to acquire the physical memory on linux systems (root is necessary)

1 unstable release

new 0.5.2 Mar 10, 2025

#221 in Unix APIs

GPL-3.0 license

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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

~13–23MB
~382K SLoC