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Linux shell command to find binaries that contain a specific symbol. Useful when searching for command injection and other vulnerabilities.
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find_symbol.sh
#!/bin/bash
SYMBOL_NAME="system"; find ./ -type f -exec printf "{}: " \; -exec sh -c "objdump -T \"{}\" 2>&1 | grep -e \" $SYMBOL_NAME\" ; echo \"\"" \; | grep -e " $SYMBOL_NAME"
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Modify the value of SYMBOL_NAME to search for different symbols.

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