Book Image

Practical Windows Forensics

Book Image

Practical Windows Forensics

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process. We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Practical Windows Forensics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 11. Memory Forensics

System memory is the working space of the operating system. The operating system uses memory to place the data that is needed to execute programs and the programs themselves. This is why acquiring the system memory is one of the steps that must be performed when applicable in digital forensics. Analyzing the memory may reveal the existence of a malicious process or program that has no traces in the machine hard disk. Memory also contains the opened network connections, which could include the connection of an attacker controlling the machine or stealing user data and information.

In this chapter, we will briefly discuss the Windows memory structure, some techniques that are used by attackers to hide their malicious activities and existence, and the tools that are used to investigate memory dump.