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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

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Analyzing Bash history

The most commonly used shell on Linux systems is Bash, one of the most popular Unix shells. One of the reasons for this popularity is that it is preinstalled on the vast majority of Linux distributions. At the same time, it is quite functional, as it allows you to interactively execute many commands and scripts, work with the filesystem, redirect the input and output of commands, and much more.

Typically, if Bash history logging is enabled, it is stored in the user's home directory, in the .bash_history file. Naturally, attackers may perform various manipulations on both this file and the history-logging process in order to hide their traces. Nevertheless, we can try to recover this information from memory. Volatility has a specific plugin for this, linux_bash. Running this plugin looks like this:

Figure 8.9 – Bash history

As you can see, in our case, the user first tried to output the contents of the passwords file with...

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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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