The Art of Memory Forensics : Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: An Introduction to Memory Forensics -- Chapter 1: Systems Overview -- Digital Environment -- PC Architecture -- Operating Systems -- Process Management -- Memory Management -- File System -- I/O Subsystem -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Data Structures -- Basic Data Types -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The Volatility Framework -- Why Volatility? -- What Volatility Is Not -- Installation -- The Framework -- Using Volatility -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Memory Acquisition -- Preserving the Digital Environment -- Software Tools -- Memory Dump Formats -- Converting Memory Dumps -- Volatile Memory on Disk -- Summary -- Part II: Windows Memory Forensics -- Chapter 5: Windows Objects and Pool Allocations -- Windows Executive Objects -- Pool-Tag Scanning -- Limitations of Pool Scanning -- Big Page Pool -- Pool-scanning Alternatives -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Processes, Handles, and Tokens -- Processes -- Process Tokens -- Privileges -- Process Handles -- Enumerating Handles in Memory -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Process Memory Internals -- What's in Process Memory? -- Enumerating Process Memory -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Hunting Malware in Process Memory -- Process Environment Block -- PE Files in Memory -- Packing and Compression -- Code Injection -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Event Logs -- Event Logs in Memory -- Real Case Examples -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Registry in Memory -- Windows Registry Analysis -- Volatility's Registry API -- Parsing Userassist Keys -- Detecting Malware with the Shimcache -- Reconstructing Activities with Shellbags -- Dumping Password Hashes -- Obtaining LSA Secrets -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Networking -- Network Artifacts -- Hidden Connections -- Raw Sockets and Sniffers -- Next Generation TCP/IP Stack -- Internet History -- DNS Cache Recovery -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Windows Services.

Service Architecture -- Installing Services -- Tricks and Stealth -- Investigating Service Activity -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Kernel Forensics and Rootkits -- Kernel Modules -- Modules in Memory Dumps -- Threads in Kernel Mode -- Driver Objects and IRPs -- Device Trees -- Auditing the SSDT -- Kernel Callbacks -- Kernel Timers -- Putting It All Together -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Windows GUI Subsystem, Part I -- The GUI Landscape -- GUI Memory Forensics -- The Session Space -- Window Stations -- Desktops -- Atoms and Atom Tables -- Windows -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Windows GUI Subsystem, Part II -- Window Message Hooks -- User Handles -- Event Hooks -- Windows Clipboard -- Case Study: ACCDFISA Ransomware -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Disk Artifacts in Memory -- Master File Table -- Extracting Files -- Defeating TrueCrypt Disk Encryption -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Event Reconstruction -- Strings -- Command History -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Timelining -- Finding Time in Memory -- Generating Timelines -- Gh0st in the Enterprise -- Summary -- Part III: Linux Memory Forensics -- Chapter 19: Linux Memory Acquisition -- Historical Methods of Acquisition -- Modern Acquisition -- Volatility Linux Profiles -- Summary -- Chapter 20: Linux Operating System -- ELF Files -- Linux Data Structures -- Linux Address Translation -- procfs and sysfs -- Compressed Swap -- Summary -- Chapter 21: Processes and Process Memory -- Processes in Memory -- Enumerating Processes -- Process Address Space -- Process Environment Variables -- Open File Handles -- Saved Context State -- Bash Memory Analysis -- Summary -- Chapter 22: Networking Artifacts -- Network Socket File Descriptors -- Network Connections -- Queued Network Packets -- Network Interfaces -- The Route Cache -- ARP Cache -- Summary -- Chapter 23: Kernel Memory Artifacts -- Physical Memory Maps -- Virtual Memory Maps.

Kernel Debug Buffer -- Loaded Kernel Modules -- Summary -- Chapter 24: File Systems in Memory -- Mounted File Systems -- Listing Files and Directories -- Extracting File Metadata -- Recovering File Contents -- Summary -- Chapter 25: Userland Rootkits -- Shellcode Injection -- Process Hollowing -- Shared Library Injection -- LD_PRELOAD Rootkits -- GOT/PLT Overwrites -- Inline Hooking -- Summary -- Chapter 26: Kernel Mode Rootkits -- Accessing Kernel Mode -- Hidden Kernel Modules -- Hidden Processes -- Elevating Privileges -- System Call Handler Hooks -- Keyboard Notifiers -- TTY Handlers -- Network Protocol Structures -- Netfilter Hooks -- File Operations -- Inline Code Hooks -- Summary -- Chapter 27: Case Study: Phalanx2 -- Phalanx2 -- Phalanx2 Memory Analysis -- Reverse Engineering Phalanx2 -- Final Thoughts on Phalanx2 -- Summary -- Part IV: Mac Memory Forensics -- Chapter 28: Mac Acquisition and Internals -- Mac Design -- Memory Acquisition -- Mac Volatility Profiles -- Mach-O Executable Format -- Summary -- Chapter 29: Mac Memory Overview -- Mac versus Linux Analysis -- Process Analysis -- Address Space Mappings -- Networking Artifacts -- SLAB Allocator -- Recovering File Systems from Memory -- Loaded Kernel Extensions -- Other Mac Plugins -- Mac Live Forensics -- Summary -- Chapter 30: Malicious Code and Rootkits -- Userland Rootkit Analysis -- Kernel Rootkit Analysis -- Common Mac Malware in Memory -- Summary -- Chapter 31: Tracking User Activity -- Keychain Recovery -- Mac Application Analysis -- Summary -- Index.

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