PicklePasswd

Simple script to access password information in /etc/passwd

About

This script demonstrates how someone could create a simple script to potentially access your password information without your knowledge.

1. Initialization: After running init.py, this script will generate a pickle file in the same directory as init.py.

2. Platform Check: When executed, the script will check the platform. If it's not Linux, the script will delete itself to avoid any unintended consequences on incompatible systems.

3. Execution: When you run run.py, the script will load the pickle file and modify itself.

4. Second Execution: If you execute run.py for the second time the main script will attempt to access information stored in /etc/passwd. It will then save this information in a file called .passwd within the same directory as the script and once the code runs successfully, the script will change its own source code to a simple "Hello, World!" comment, effectively altering its functionality.

**Note that this script is not harmfull or any other type of viruses. this will just read a file, main porpse is to show how pickle viruses work.**

Installation

• Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/Kourva/PicklePasswd

• Open source folder

cd PicklePasswd

• Execute init.py to create pickle script

python3 init.py

• Execute run.py to load pickle script

python3 run.py

• Execute run.py again to run script

python3 run.py