What’s new in Volatility 3
The Volatility framework is an open source, cross-platform incident response framework that comes with many useful plugins that provide the investigator with a wealth of information from a snapshot of memory, also known as a memory dump. The concept of Volatility has been around for a decade, and apart from analyzing running and hidden processes, it is also a very popular choice for malware analysis.
To create a memory dump, several tools, such as Belkasoft RAM Capturer, FTK Imager, dd, dc3dd, CAINE, Helix, and LiME (short for Linux Memory Extractor), can be used to acquire the memory image or memory dump (which we previously did in Chapter 8, Evidence Acquisition Tools) and then analyzed using various tools known as plugins within the Volatility framework.
The Volatility framework can be run on any Operating System (OS), that is, 32- and 64-bit, that supports Python, including the following:
- Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1, and Windows 10 ...