Credentials in process memory
In order to gain access to secrets that an application actively maintains, you can either debug the process and search for password patterns or create a memory dump and search that. One tool to highlight the process dump's creation is ProcDump from Sysinternals Suite. For more information, you can refer to the following link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite.
The applications to consider when looking at and researching credentials and sensitive information include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and so on).
- Password managers.
- Mail Clients (Outlook, Mail, and so on).
- Tools for system management and administration, especially cloud management. tools that might have cookies, tokens, or passwords (for instance, Cloud Explorer).
- Never forget LSASS on Windows.
Alternatively, just dump all of them and search for interesting patterns!
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