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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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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

Checking browsing history

On Linux-based systems, as on Windows, most popular browsers store their data in SQLite databases. For example, Firefox stores its history in the places.sqlite file located in /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/*.default-release, and Chrome stores its history in the history file from /home/user/.config/google-chrome/Default. If you've managed to retrieve these files from memory during the filesystem recovery process, that's fine. But of course, this will not always be the case. If you do not have the standard history files at your disposal, you will have to search for information about the visited resources in process memory. In some ways, this approach is even more versatile in that it allows you to obtain data on the visited websites regardless of the browser and history storage formats that are used.

The process of accessing an individual process's memory will not be as straightforward as it is in Windows. To give you an example, let's take...

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