Week 2 of the Month of Volatility Plugins posted!

It's been an exciting week in the Volatility community.  We've just finished our second week of Month of Volatility Plugins (MoVP) blogposts, released Volatility 2.2 RC2 for testing, fixed a few minor bugs and now we're gearing up for our third week of posts and the upcoming Open Memory Forensics Workshop (OMFW).  Here is a list of this week's posts, compiled by Andrew Case:

I was writing to announce that week 2 of the month of Volatility plugins is finished, and we now have five more in-depth blog posts covering Windows and Linux internals and rootkit detection. These have all been posted to the new Volatility Labs blog.

Post 1: Atoms (The New Mutex), Classes and DLL Injection

This Windows focused post covers investigating malware and understanding infections by analyzing the atom tables.

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2012/09/movp-21-atoms-new-mutex-classes-and-dll.html

Post 2: Malware in your Windows

This Windows focused post covers enumerating and analyzing windows in the GUI subsystem.

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2012/09/movp-22-malware-in-your-windows.html

Post 3: Event logs and Service SIDs

This Windows focused post demonstrates recovering event logs from memory and calculating service SIDs.

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2012/09/movp-23-event-logs-and-service-sids.html

Post 4: Analyzing the Jynx rootkit and LD_PRELOAD

This Linux focused post covers analyzing the Jynx rootkit as well as generic methods for analyzing LD_PRELOAD based rootkits.

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2012/09/movp-24-analyzing-jynx-rootkit-and.html

Post 5: Investigating In-Memory Network Data with Volatility

This Linux focused post goes through each of the Linux Volatility plugins related to recovering network data from memory, such as network connections, packets, and the routing cache.

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2012/09/movp-25-investigating-in-memory-network.html

If you have any questions or comments on the posts, please leave a comment on the respective post on the Volatility Labs blog.

We hope you've enjoyed this week's series.  Stay tuned, we have much more in store!