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Unhide – forensic tool to find hidden processes

Unhide is a forensic tool to find hidden processes and TCP/UDP ports by rootkits / LKMs or by another hiding technique.

This program is under active development.

Unhide is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Implements 6 main techniques:
    • Compare /proc vs /bin/ps output
    • Compare info gathered from /bin/ps with info gathered by walking thru the procfs.
    • Compare info gathered from /bin/ps with info gathered from syscalls (syscall scanning).
    • Full PIDs space ocupation (PIDs bruteforcing).
    • Compare /bin/ps output vs /proc, procfs walking and syscall. Reverse search, verify that all thread seen by ps are also seen in the kernel.
    • Quick compare /proc, procfs walking and syscall vs /bin/ps output.

Website: github.com/YJesus/Unhide
Support:
Developer: Yago Jesus, Patrick Gouin
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Unhide is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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