github.com/guitmz/memrun

Small tool to run ELF binaries from memory with a given process name


Keywords
assembly, elf, golang, linux
License
MIT
Install
go get github.com/guitmz/memrun

Documentation

memrun

Small tool written in Golang to run ELF (x86_64) binaries from memory with a given process name. Works on Linux where kernel version is >= 3.17 (relies on the memfd_create syscall).

Usage

Build it with $ go build memrun.go and execute it. The first argument is the process name (string) you want to see in ps auxww output for example. Second argument is the path for the ELF binary you want to run from memory.

Usage: memrun process_name elf_binary