Dump the memory of the specified pid (linux)

memory_dumper.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import ctypes, re, sys

## Partial interface to ptrace(2), only for PTRACE_ATTACH and PTRACE_DETACH.
c_ptrace = ctypes.CDLL("libc.so.6").ptrace
c_pid_t = ctypes.c_int32 # This assumes pid_t is int32_t
c_ptrace.argtypes = [ctypes.c_int, c_pid_t, ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_void_p]


def ptrace(attach, pid):
    op = ctypes.c_int(16 if attach else 17) #PTRACE_ATTACH or PTRACE_DETACH
    c_pid = c_pid_t(pid)
    null = ctypes.c_void_p()
    err = c_ptrace(op, c_pid, null, null)
    if err != 0: raise Exception, 'ptrace', err


if (len(sys.argv) < 2):
    print "%s <pid>" % sys.argv[0]
    sys.exit(-1)

pid = sys.argv[1]

ptrace(True, int(pid))
maps_file = open("/proc/%s/maps" % pid, 'r')
mem_file = open("/proc/%s/mem" % pid, 'r', 0)
for line in maps_file.readlines():  # for each mapped region
    m = re.match(r'([0-9A-Fa-f]+)-([0-9A-Fa-f]+) ([-r])', line)
    if m.group(3) == 'r':  # if this is a readable region
        try:
            start = int(m.group(1), 16)
            end = int(m.group(2), 16)
            mem_file.seek(start)  # seek to region start
            chunk = mem_file.read(end - start)  # read region contents
            print chunk
        except:
            pass
maps_file.close()
mem_file.close()
ptrace(False, int(pid))