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Practical Memory Forensics

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070331
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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Svetlana Ostrovskaya Svetlana Ostrovskaya
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Understanding Windows memory-acquisition issues

In the previous chapter, we covered the general concepts of memory dumping in detail and discussed possible issues. However, each operating system has its particular peculiarities. The main peculiarity related to memory extraction in Windows is the access to random-access memory (RAM), but first things first.

Remember that earlier, we talked about device memory, which is the area of physical memory that is reserved for devices? Such devices include video cards, audio cards, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) cards, and so on. Their direct access to the physical memory is vital for their qualitative and effective operation. And do you remember what trying to access device memory can lead to? That's right—it can lead to unpredictable consequences.

The thing is, attempts to access or write to device memory are translated into requests sent to the corresponding device. However, different devices may react differently...

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