Computer memory forensics
Volatility is an open-source memory forensics framework for incident response and malware analysis. It is written in Python and supports Microsoft Windows , Mac OS X , and Linux (as of version 2.5[ 1]
Volatility was created by Aaron Walters, drawing on academic research he did in memory forensics.[ 2] [ 3]
Operating system support [ edit ] Volatility supports investigations of the following memory images:[ 4]
Windows:
32-bit Windows XP (Service Pack 2 and 3)
32-bit Windows 2003 Server (Service Pack 0, 1, 2)
32-bit Windows Vista (Service Pack 0, 1, 2)
32-bit Windows 2008 Server (Service Pack 1, 2)
32-bit Windows 7 (Service Pack 0, 1)
32-bit Windows 8, 8.1, and 8.1 Update 1
32-bit Windows 10 (initial support)
64-bit Windows XP (Service Pack 1 and 2)
64-bit Windows 2003 Server (Service Pack 1 and 2)
64-bit Windows Vista (Service Pack 0, 1, 2)
64-bit Windows 2008 Server (Service Pack 1 and 2)
64-bit Windows 2008 R2 Server (Service Pack 0 and 1)
64-bit Windows 7 (Service Pack 0 and 1)
64-bit Windows 8, 8.1, and 8.1 Update 1
64-bit Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
64-bit Windows 10 (including at least 10.0.14393)
64-bit Windows Server 2016 (including at least 10.0.14393.0) Mac OSX:
32-bit 10.5.x Leopard (the only 64-bit 10.5 is Server, which isn't supported)
32-bit 10.6.x Snow Leopard
32-bit 10.7.x Lion
64-bit 10.6.x Snow Leopard
64-bit 10.7.x Lion
64-bit 10.8.x Mountain Lion
64-bit 10.9.x Mavericks
64-bit 10.10.x Yosemite
64-bit 10.11.x El Capitan
64-bit 10.12.x Sierra
64-bit 10.13.x High Sierra
64-bit 10.14.x Mojave
64-bit 10.15.x Catalina Linux:
32-bit Linux kernels 2.6.11 to 5.5
64-bit Linux kernels 2.6.11 to 5.5
OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Mandriva, etc. Volatility supports a variety of sample file formats and the ability to convert between these formats:
Raw/Padded Physical Memory
Firewire (IEEE 1394)
Expert Witness (EWF)
32- and 64-bit Windows Crash Dump
32- and 64-bit Windows Hibernation (from Windows 7 or earlier)
32- and 64-bit Mach-O files
Virtualbox Core Dumps
VMware Saved State (.vmss) and Snapshot (.vmsn)
HPAK Format (FastDump)
QEMU memory dumps
LiME format
^ "The Volatility Foundation - Open Source Memory Forensics" .^ Petroni, N. L., Walters, A., Fraser, T., & Arbaugh, W. A. (2006). FATKit: A framework for the extraction and analysis of digital forensic data from volatile system memory . Digital Investigation, 3(4), 197-210.
^ Walters, A., & Petroni, N. L. (2007). Volatools: Integrating Volatile Memory into the Digital Investigation Process. Black Hat Briefings DC 2007, 1-18.
^ "volatilityfoundation/volatility" . GitHub . Retrieved 2020-12-25 . 
