Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Second Week of Month of Volatility Plugins II is posted

We are writing as the second week of the second installment of the
Month of Volatility Plugins is now posted. Volatility 2.3 is currently
in beta, and the blog posts are focusing on new features in this
version. This week's posts discussed a number of new and updated
plugins used to analyze Windows systems.

The first post discussed recovering RSA Private Keys and SSL
Certificates from memory:

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-21-rsa-private-keys-and.html

The second post discussed recovering information about unloaded kernel
modules from memory:

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-22-unloaded-windows-kernel_22.html

The third post showed how to create timelines with in-memory data
using Volatility:

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-23-creating-timelines-with.html

The fourth post demonstrated how to recover MFT entries and utilize
them during investigations:

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-24-reconstructing-master-file.html

The last post highlighted a number of new and updated plugins that are
very useful during investigations:

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-25-new-and-improved-windows.html

We hope you enjoy the posts, and the third week of posts will begin
tomorrow and cover a number of new plugins to help analyze Linux and
Android samples.

If you have any questions or comments please comment on an individual
blog post or reply to this email.

Thanks,
Andrew (@attrc)

First week of Month of Volatility Plugins II is posted

We are writing as the first week of the second installment of the
Month of Volatility Plugins is now posted. Volatility 2.3 is currently
in beta, and the blog posts are focusing on new features in this
version. This week's posts discussed a number of new address spaces we
have added to support new hardware architectures and file formats.

The first one is the MachO address space used to support Mac Memory Reader:

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-11-mach-o-address-space.html

The second is an address space used to support VirtualBox:

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-12-virtualbox-elf64-core-dumps.html

The third address space allows for analysis of VMware snapshot files
(.vmss and .vmsn):

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-13-vmware-snapshot-and-saved.html

The fourth address space supports the hpak format of the HBGary Fast
Dump acquisition tool:

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-14-new-hpak-address-space.html

The final address space discussed adds support for the ARM
architecture. This is leveraged by Volatility's Android support:

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2013/05/movp-ii-15-arm-address-space-volatility.html

We hope you enjoy the posts, and the second installment of posts will
begin tomorrow and cover a number of new plugins to help analyzing
Windows samples.

If you have any questions or comments please comment on an individual
blog post or email the author.

Thanks,
Andrew (@attrc)