• It uses syscalls (with SysWhispers2) for most operations
• You can choose to download the dump without touching disk or write it to a file
• The minidump by default has an invalid signature to avoid detection
• It reduces the size of the dump by ignoring irrelevant DLLs. The (nano)dump tends to be arround 10 MB in size
• You don't need to provide the PID of LSASS
• No calls to dbghelp or any other library are made, all the dump logic is implemented in nanodump
• You can use the .exe version to run nanodump outside of Cobalt Strike