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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 Belkasoft RAM Capturer

Belkasoft RAM Capturer is another free tool for memory acquisition. As with the previous tools outlined, it uses kernel drivers to extract the physical memory and create dumps. This tool is compatible with all 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 8, Server 2003 and 2008, and Windows 10.

You will need to take the following steps:

  1. To get this tool, go to the Download tab on the official Belkasoft web page at https://belkasoft.com/.
  2. Choose Belkasoft Live RAM Capturer and leave your email in the specified field. After confirmation, you will receive a download link. From this link, you will get an archive with two x64 and x86 folders, which should be extracted to a flash drive.
  3. This time, you need to find out if you're dealing with an x64 or an x86 system. To do so, use the Search box on the taskbar. Type system and run the System Information application, as shown in...