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).

Volatility was created by Aaron Walters, drawing on academic research he did in memory forensics.

Volatility supports investigations of the following memory images:

Windows:

Mac OSX:

Linux:

Volatility supports a variety of sample file formats and the ability to convert between these formats: