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Practical Memory Forensics

By : Svetlana Ostrovskaya, Oleg Skulkin
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Book Image

Practical Memory Forensics

4 (1)
By: Svetlana Ostrovskaya, Oleg Skulkin

Overview of this book

Memory Forensics is a powerful analysis technique that can be used in different areas, from incident response to malware analysis. With memory forensics, you can not only gain key insights into the user's context but also look for unique traces of malware, in some cases, to piece together the puzzle of a sophisticated targeted attack. Starting with an introduction to memory forensics, this book will gradually take you through more modern concepts of hunting and investigating advanced malware using free tools and memory analysis frameworks. This book takes a practical approach and uses memory images from real incidents to help you gain a better understanding of the subject and develop the skills required to investigate and respond to malware-related incidents and complex targeted attacks. You'll cover Windows, Linux, and macOS internals and explore techniques and tools to detect, investigate, and hunt threats using memory forensics. Equipped with this knowledge, you'll be able to create and analyze memory dumps on your own, examine user activity, detect traces of fileless and memory-based malware, and reconstruct the actions taken by threat actors. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed in memory forensics and have gained hands-on experience of using various tools associated with it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Basics of Memory Forensics
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Section 2: Windows Forensic Analysis
9
Section 3: Linux Forensic Analysis
13
Section 4: macOS Forensic Analysis

Acquiring memory with FTK imager

AccessData FTK Imager is one of the most popular free tools. It's commonly used both by forensic analysts and incident responders for disk image previews, or even live response, so it can be used not only for bit-by-bit imaging, but also for creating custom content images and, of course, memory images. Let's get a closer look! Follow these next steps:

  1. To get FTK Imager, go to the AccessData official web page at https://accessdata.com/products-services/forensic-toolkit-ftk/ftkimager.
  2. Choose Products & Services | FTK® Imager. Follow the Download FTK Imager today! link and press Download now. You will be asked to fill in a short form with your contact information. After that, a link will be sent to the email address you specified.

Now, you need to install FTK Imager on your flash drive. You can use the InstallShield Wizard tool, which provides step-by-step installation instructions.

To create memory dumps, FTK...