An Introduction to VolUtility, (Mon, Jun 12th)

If you would like to practicememory forensics using Volatility but you dont like command line tools and you hate to remmber plugins then VolUtility is your friend.

Volutility1is a web frontend for Volatility framework.

Installation

In this dairy, I will install VolUtlity on Linux SIFT2workstation.

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    1. Install MongoDB :

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    $ git clone https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility

    $ cd volatility

    $ sudo python setup.py install

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    $ git clone https://github.com/kevthehermit/VolUtility

    Configuration

    In this diary I am going to use the default config file volutility.conf.sample border:solid windowtext 1.0pt”>

    $ ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

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    Enter a name for the session and the location of the memory image ,for the profile you can either specify it or you can choose autodetect, then click on submit button width:400px” />

    You have to wait for few minutest till it finishes from processing the image, once it finished the status will change to Complete width:400px” />

    To examine the image click on the session name , in this the dairy its SANS ISC width:400px” />

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    And you can of course filter your result using tools such as MS Excel.

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    [1] https://digital-forensics.sans.org/community/downloads

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