Volatility Memory Forensics - Promoting Accessible Memory Analysis Tools Within the Memory Forensics Community.

Memory analysis has become one of the most important topics to the future of digital investigations, and The Volatility Framework has become the world’s most widely used memory forensics tool - relied upon by law enforcement, military, academia, and commercial investigators around the world. The Volatility Foundation helps keep Volatility going so that it may be used in perpetuity, free and open to all.

smem is a tool that can give numerous reports on memory usage on Linux systems. Unlike existing tools, smem can report proportional set size (PSS), which is a more meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system.

Linpmem is a linux memory acquisition tool. Linpmem is a Linux x64-only tool for reading physical memory.

Like its Windows counterpart, Winpmem, this is not a traditional memory dumper. Linpmem offers an API for reading from any physical address, including reserved memory and memory holes, but it can also be used for normal memory dumping. Furthermore, the driver offers a variety of access modes to read physical memory, such as byte, word, dword, qword, and buffer access mode, where buffer access mode is appropriate in most standard cases. If reading requires an aligned byte/word/dword/qword read, Linpmem will do precisely that.

Volatility 3: The volatile memory extraction framework Volatility is the world's most widely used framework for extracting digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples. The extraction techniques are performed completely independent of the system being investigated but offer visibility into the runtime state of the system. The framework is intended to introduce people to the techniques and complexities associated with extracting digital artifacts from volatile memory samples and provide a platform for further work into this exciting area of research.

The multi-platform memory acquisition tool.

WinPmem has been the default open source memory acquisition driver for windows for a long time. It used to live in the Rekall project, but has recently been separated into its own repository.