Find information in a swapfile image with Linux.

The strings utility for Linux is very useful for finding all text strings in a binary file. I am using a swapfile image as an example. It can easily be searched for various strings that can reveal various information. Below is an example, I am looking for instances of the…

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Finding Windows Malware with Linux.

This output below is the result of running strings(1) on my pagefile.sys file left over from running Windows 7. You can see there is a bit of activity going on behind the scenes of Windows that I was not aware of. I thought my system had no bugs in it…

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