Research Roundup: New Tools And Techniques And Ensuring Their Quality

The month of May saw a robust, diverse set of academic papers published. Tools and techniques are as present as ever — focusing that month on Windows 10 and mobile malware — but so are discussions about how to ensure … Read more The … Continue reading Research Roundup: New Tools And Techniques And Ensuring Their Quality

SANS Memory Forensics Cheat Sheet

Just in time for the holidays, we have a new update to the SANS Memory Forensics Cheatsheet!  Plugins for the Volatility memory analysis project are organized into relevant analysis steps, helping the analyst walk through a typical memory investigation.  We added new plugins like hollowfind and dumpregistry, updated plugin syntax, and now include help for […] Continue reading SANS Memory Forensics Cheat Sheet

SANS Memory Forensics Cheat Sheet

Just in time for the holidays, we have a new update to the SANS Memory Forensics Cheatsheet!  Plugins for the Volatility memory analysis project are organized into relevant analysis steps, helping the analyst walk through a typical memory investigation.  We added new plugins like hollowfind and dumpregistry, updated plugin syntax, and now include help for […] Continue reading SANS Memory Forensics Cheat Sheet

Volatility Framework – Advanced Memory Forensics Framework

The Volatility Framework is an an advanced, completely open collection of tools for memory forensics, implemented in Python under the GNU General Public License, for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples. The extraction… Continue reading Volatility Framework – Advanced Memory Forensics Framework

The Volatility team talks proactive threat hunting with memory forensics (an OSDFCon presentation)

Our final OSDFCon blog series featured speaker is actually a collective: the team behind the nonprofit Volatility Foundation. This year, memory forensics has evolved once more, and the Volatility team talked to us about using it to be more proactive than reactive in incident response. BT: Your talk topic this year is “Feasting Off the […] Continue reading The Volatility team talks proactive threat hunting with memory forensics (an OSDFCon presentation)

Hunting PowerShell Command Lines

My recent webcast with Jaron Bradley was recorded and a link is available below.  If you have been looking for an excuse to get more familiar with Windows PowerShell, have a look. What Malware?  Hunting Command Line Activity There is a reason hackers use the command line, and it isn’t to impress you with their prowess. […] Continue reading Hunting PowerShell Command Lines

Hunting PowerShell Command Lines

My recent webcast with Jaron Bradley was recorded and a link is available below.  If you have been looking for an excuse to get more familiar with Windows PowerShell, have a look. What Malware?  Hunting Command Line Activity There is a reason hackers use the command line, and it isn’t to impress you with their prowess. […] Continue reading Hunting PowerShell Command Lines