List of Volatility Plugins

The Volatility Framework was designed to be expanded by plugins. Here is a list of the published plugins for the framework. Note that these plugins are not hosted on the wiki, but all on external sites.

Command Shell

• volshell - Creates a python shell can be used with the framework.

Malware Detection

• malfind (By Michael Hale Ligh) - Automates the process of finding and extracting (usually malicious) code injected into another process

Data Recovery

• cryptoscan (By Jesse Kornblum) - Finds TrueCrypt passphrases
• moddump (By [Moyix) - Dump out a kernel module (aka driver)
• Registry tools (By Moyix) - A suite of plugins for accessing data from the registry, including password hashes, LSA secrets, and arbitrary registry keys.
• getsids (By Moyix) - Get information about what user (SID) started a process.
• ssdt (By Moyix) - List entries in the system call table. Can be used to detect certain rootkits that hook system calls by replacing entries in this table.
• threadqueues (By Moyix) - Enumerates window messages pending for each thread on the system. Window messages are the mechanism used to send things like button presses, mouse clicks, and other events to GUI programs.
• objtypescan (By Andreas Schuster) - Lists open files by enumerating the _FILE_OBJECT structure. (Note: If running the SVN version of Volatility, just install the plugin file from this archive)
• keyboardbuffer (By Andreas Schuster) - Extracts keyboard buffer used by the BIOS, which may contain BIOS or disk encryption passwords.
• mutantscan (By Andreas Schuster) - Extracts mutexs from the Windows kernel
• symlinkobjscan (By Andreas Schuster) - Extracts symbolic link objects from the Windows kernel
• driverscan (By Andreas Schuster) - Scan for kernel _DRIVER_OBJECTs.
• fileobjscan (By Andreas Schuster) - File object -> process linkage, including hidden files.

Process Enumeration

• suspicious (By Jesse Kornblum) - Identify "suspicious" processes. This version counts any command line running TrueCrypt or any command line that starts with a lower case drive letter as suspicious.

Output Formatting

• pstree - Produces a tree-style listing of processes
• vol2html - Converts volatility output to HTML. Not technically a plugin, but useful nonetheless.