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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

Examining communication applications

How often do you use communication apps to chat, send videos, or look at pictures of cute cats that have been sent to you? The answer is probably every day. Email and messengers have become an essential part of our lives, so we cannot avoid them. While examining the dump that's been taken from the victim's computer, we might come across a malicious document sent by email, and in the memory dump of the suspect's computer, we might find correspondence with accomplices.

We have already talked about email, so we'll start there.

Email, email, email

Nowadays, there are many different email agents, and some people prefer to use a browser to check their mail. Thus, we can reduce the analysis to the following:

  • If, in the list of running processes, we see a process related to the email agent, we can check the resources being used by the handles plugin and look for files that might be in the attachment.
  • Also, if there...
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