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Practical Memory Forensics

You're reading from Practical Memory Forensics Jumpstart effective forensic analysis of volatile memory

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070331

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Forensics

Authors (2):

Oleg Skulkin

Svetlana Ostrovskaya

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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

What's live memory analysis?

There are several situations where it is impossible to create a memory dump. We already discussed these situations in Chapter 1, Why Memory Forensics?. Also, memory extraction may become inefficient for remote systems or systems with more than 32 GB of RAM. In such cases, you can use live memory analysis for manual examination of running processes, their memory contents, network connections, and the current system state.

Important Note

Keep in mind that you will often need a user with administrator rights to perform live analysis. If a threat actor has access to the target system and uses credential carving tools, then logging in as a privileged user simply gives away your credentials.

Windows

To perform live memory analysis on Windows hosts, there is a wide list of various tools, from built-in to advanced forensic frameworks. Also, many EDR/XDR solutions nowadays allow incident responders to perform live memory analysis.

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Authors (2)

Ostrovskaya

Ostrovskaya

Svetlana Ostrovskaya is a practicing specialist in digital forensics and incident response at Group-IB. She is the author of DFIR training programs and cybersecurity crisis management workshops, and the author and co-author of blog posts, articles, and books on information security, computer forensics, and incident response.

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Oleg Skulkin

Oleg Skulkin

Oleg Skulkin is the Head of Digital Forensics and Malware Analysis Laboratory at Group-IB. Oleg has worked in the fields of digital forensics, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence and research for over a decade, fueling his passion for uncovering new techniques used by hidden adversaries. Oleg has authored and co-authored multiple blog posts, papers, and books on related topics and holds GCFA and GCTI certifications.

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