/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/dropbear is in dropbear-initramfs 2016.72-1.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o755.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 | #!/bin/sh
PREREQ="udev"
prereqs() {
    echo "$PREREQ"
}
case "$1" in
    prereqs)
        prereqs
        exit 0
    ;;
esac
[ "$IP" != off -a "$IP" != none -a -x /sbin/dropbear ] || exit 0
run_dropbear() {
    # always run configure_networking() before dropbear(8); on NFS
    # mounts this has been done already
    [ "$boot" = nfs ] || configure_networking
    log_begin_msg "Starting dropbear"
    # using exec and keeping dropbear in the foreground enables the
    # init-bottom script to kill the remaining ipconfig processes if
    # someone unlocks the rootfs from the console while the network is
    # being configured
    exec /sbin/dropbear ${DROPBEAR_OPTIONS:-$PKGOPTION_dropbear_OPTION} -Fs
}
. /conf/initramfs.conf
. /scripts/functions
# On NFS mounts, wait until the network is configured.  On local mounts,
# configure the network in the background (in run_dropbear()) so someone
# with console access can enter the passphrase immediately.  (With the
# default ip=dhcp, configure_networking hangs for 5mins or so when the
# network is unavailable, for instance.)
[ "$boot" != nfs ] || configure_networking
run_dropbear &
echo $! >/run/dropbear.pid
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