ulexecve VS PythonMemoryModule

Compare ulexecve vs PythonMemoryModule and see what are their differences.

ulexecve

ulexecve is a userland execve() implementation which helps you execute arbitrary ELF binaries on Linux from userland without the binaries ever having to touch storage. This is useful for red-teaming and anti-forensics purposes. (by anvilsecure)

PythonMemoryModule

pure-python implementation of MemoryModule technique to load dll and unmanaged exe entirely from memory (by naksyn)
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ulexecve PythonMemoryModule
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5.2 4.9
4 months ago 5 months ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Apache License 2.0
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ulexecve

Posts with mentions or reviews of ulexecve. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-02.
  • Can I exec an new process without an executable file? (2015)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2022
    Definitely tricky. I solved it with a Python implementation by building up a big jumpbuffer so that the moment I leave Python-land I copy from temporary buffers to the right addresses and then ultimately jump at the entry point of the newly loaded binary. It's tricky and took quite some debugging to get right, but it's proven rather solid now.

    See https://github.com/anvilsecure/ulexecve/blob/main/ulexecve.p... for details. Especially the `CodeGenerator` classes with implementations in x86, x86-64 and aarch64.

PythonMemoryModule

Posts with mentions or reviews of PythonMemoryModule. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ulexecve and PythonMemoryModule you can also consider the following projects:

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byob - An open-source post-exploitation framework for students, researchers and developers.

mmLoader - A library for loading dll module bypassing windows PE loader from memory (x86/x64)