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| − | Analysis of [[physical memory]] from [[Windows]] systems can yield significant information about the target operating system. This field is still very new, but holds great promise.
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| − | == Sample Memory Images == | + | == External Links == |
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| − | Getting started with memory analysis can be difficult without some known images to practice with.
| + | * [http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/ Official website] |
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| − | * The 2005 [[Digital Forensic Research Workshop]] [http://www.dfrws.org/2005/challenge/ Memory Analysis Challenge] published two Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 memory images with some [[malware]] installed.
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| − | * The [http://dftt.sourceforge.net/ Digital Forensics Tool Testing] project has published a few [http://dftt.sourceforge.net/test13/index.html Windows memory images].
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| − | == See Also ==
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| − | * [[Pagefile.sys]]
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| − | == History ==
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| − | During the 1990s, it became a [[best practice]] to capture a [[Tools:Memory_Imaging|memory image]] during [[Incident Response|incident response]]. At the time, the only way to analyze such memory images was using [[strings]]. Although this method could reveal interesting details about the memory image, there was no way to associate what data came from what program, let alone what user.
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| − | In the summer 2005 the [[Digital Forensic Research Workshop]] published a ''Memory Analysis Challenge''. They distributed two memory images and asked researchers to answer a number of questions about a security incident. The challenge produced two seminal works. The first, by [[Chris Betz]], introduced a tool called [[memparser]]. The second, by [[George Garner]] and [[Robert-Jan Mora]] produced [[KnTList]].
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| − | At the [[Blackhat (conference)|Blackhat Federal]] conference in March 2007, [[AAron Walters]] and [[Nick Petroni]] released a suite called [[volatools]]. Although it only worked on [[Windows XP]] Service Pack 2 images, it was able to produce a number of useful data. [[volatools]] was updated and re-released as [[Volatility]] in August 2007, and is now maintained and distributed by [https://www.volatilesystems.com/ Volatile Systems].
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| − | == External Links ==
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| − | ; Jesse Kornblum Memory Analysis discussion on Cyberspeak
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| − | : http://cyberspeak.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=98104
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| − | ; Memory Analysis Bibliography
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| − | : http://www.4tphi.net/fatkit/#links
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