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Practical Memory Forensics

You're reading from Practical Memory Forensics Jumpstart effective forensic analysis of volatile memory

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070331

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Forensics

Authors (2):

Oleg Skulkin

Svetlana Ostrovskaya

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Basics of Memory Forensics

2. Chapter 1: Why Memory Forensics? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Acquisition Process

4. Section 2: Windows Forensic Analysis

5. Chapter 3: Windows Memory Acquisition

6. Chapter 4: Reconstructing User Activity with Windows Memory Forensics

7. Chapter 5: Malware Detection and Analysis with Windows Memory Forensics

8. Chapter 6: Alternative Sources of Volatile Memory

9. Section 3: Linux Forensic Analysis

10. Chapter 7: Linux Memory Acquisition

11. Chapter 8: User Activity Reconstruction

12. Chapter 9: Malicious Activity Detection

13. Section 4: macOS Forensic Analysis

14. Chapter 10: MacOS Memory Acquisition

15. Chapter 11: Malware Detection and Analysis with macOS Memory Forensics

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

Compared to the OSes discussed earlier, macOS is the most difficult to work with. Most of the tools that support creating memory dumps on newer versions of macOS are paid, and the freeware tools support dumping only for macOS versions up to Catalina.

A further difficulty is launching the tools themselves. Due to macOS security features, it is necessary to change a number of settings in order to run programs from third-party sources. This is especially true for tools that use kext loading.

Another difficulty is the creation of Volatility profiles for newer versions of macOS. This is due to the fact that creating a profile requires converting a dwarf file into a format recognized by Volatility, and the scripts provided by Volatility developers and found in the official GitHub repository do not work with the latest versions of macOS.

Given all the difficulties that can be encountered when creating a macOS memory dump in a form suitable for analysis, before starting...

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Authors (2)

Ostrovskaya

Ostrovskaya

Svetlana Ostrovskaya is a practicing specialist in digital forensics and incident response at Group-IB. She is the author of DFIR training programs and cybersecurity crisis management workshops, and the author and co-author of blog posts, articles, and books on information security, computer forensics, and incident response.

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Oleg Skulkin

Oleg Skulkin

Oleg Skulkin is the Head of Digital Forensics and Malware Analysis Laboratory at Group-IB. Oleg has worked in the fields of digital forensics, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence and research for over a decade, fueling his passion for uncovering new techniques used by hidden adversaries. Oleg has authored and co-authored multiple blog posts, papers, and books on related topics and holds GCFA and GCTI certifications.

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