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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

Preparing for macOS memory acquisition

There are not many macOS memory acquisition tools, and they all support only certain versions of the operating system. Therefore, before choosing and testing the right tool, we need to find out the version of the operating system we plan to work with. To see the macOS version installed, click the Apple menu icon in the top-left corner of your screen, and then select About This Mac:

Figure 10.1 – About This Mac

Figure 10.1 – About This Mac

In the window that appears, you will see the version of the operating system; in our case, it is macOS Big Sur version 11.6. Using the information about the OS version, you can find tools that support memory dumping from this OS.

At the time of writing, the following tools are publicly available:

  • osxpmem – supports 64-bit versions of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), OS X Mavericks (10.9), OS X Yosemite (10.10), OS X El Capitan (10.11), macOS Sierra (10.11), macOS High Sierra (10.13), macOS...
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