Tool for collecting various forensics artifacts in Windows memory dumps using Volatility and Foremost for common Windows applications
Project description
Introduction
This tool automates the research of some artifacts for forensics purpose in memory dumps based upon Volatility for a series of common Windows applications. It is aimed to facilitate triage while addressing multiple forensics images.
It can also open multiple archive formats. In case of an archive, the tool will extract all its files to a temporary directory and then try to open each file as a memory dump (except files named README
or README.md
).
System Requirements
This framework was tested on an Ubuntu 18.04 with Python 2.7. It relies on Foremost and Volatility
$ sudo apt-get install foremost
$ git clone https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility /tmp/vol-setup
$ cd /tmp/vol-setup && sudo python setup.py install
Setup
$ pip install appmemdumper
Behind a proxy ?
Do not forget to add option
--proxy=http://[user]:[pwd]@[host]:[port]
to your pip command.
Quick Start
- Help
$ app-mem-dumper --help
AppMemDumper 2.4.3
Author : Alexandre D'Hondt
Copyright: © 2020 A. D'Hondt
License : GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
This tool automates the research of some artifacts for forensics purpose in memory dumps based upon Volatility for a
series of common Windows applications.
It can also open multiple archive formats (it uses pyunpack). In case of an archive, the tool will extract all its files
to a temporary directory and then try to open each file as a memory dump.
usage: ./app-mem-dumper [-a APPS] [-s SYST] [-f] [-p PLUGINS]
[--profile PROFILE] [-d DUMP_DIR] [-t TEMP_DIR] [-u]
[-h] [--help] [-v]
dump
positional arguments:
dump memory dump file path
application/system dumpers:
-a APPS comma-separated list of integers designating applications to be parsed
Currently supported:
[0] AdobeReader [8] Notepad
[1] Chrome [9] OpenOffice
[2] Firefox [10] PDFLite
[3] FoxitReader [11] SumatraPDF
[4] InternetExplorer [12] Thunderbird
[5] KeePass [13] TrueCrypt
[6] MSPaint [14] Wordpad
[7] MediaPlayerClassic
(default: all)
-s SYST comma-separated list of integers designating system items to be parsed
Currently supported:
[0] Autoruns [9] Malfind
[1] Clipboard [10] Mimikatz
[2] CommandLines [11] NetworkConnections
[3] CriticalProcessesInfo [12] ProcessesInfo
[4] Devices [13] Registry
[5] DumpInfo [14] Timeline
[6] FilesList [15] UserActivities
[7] Kernel [16] UserHashes
[8] LsaSecrets
(default: none)
volatility options:
-f, --force force profile search, do not use cached profile (default: False)
-p PLUGINS, --plugins-dir PLUGINS
path to custom plugins (default: None)
--profile PROFILE force Volatility profile (default: None)
NB: has the precedence on -f/--force
output options:
-d DUMP_DIR, --dump-dir DUMP_DIR
dump directory (default: files)
-t TEMP_DIR, --temp-dir TEMP_DIR
temporary directory for decompressed images (default: .temp)
-u, --update update previous dump directories (default: False)
extra arguments:
-h show usage message and exit
--help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose verbose mode (default: False)
Usage examples:
./app-mem-dumper memory.dmp
./app-mem-dumper my-dumps.tar.gz
./app-mem-dumper dumps.zip -a none -s all
./app-mem-dumper dump.raw -a 1,2,4 -f
./app-mem-dumper dump.mem -a 0,3,10,11 -s 0
./app-mem-dumper dump.raw -v --profile Win7SP1x86
- Example of output
$ app-mem-dumper memory.dump -v -p plugins
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] Attempting to decompress 'memory.dump'...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] Not an archive, continuing...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] Setting output directory to 'files/memory.dump'...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [INFO] Opening dump file 'memory.dump'...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [INFO] Getting profile...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [INFO] Getting processes...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] > Executing command 'pslist'...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] Found : mspaint.exe
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] Not handled : audiodg.exe, csrss.exe, dllhost.exe, [...]
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] Profile: Win7SP0x86
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [INFO] Processing dumper 'dumpinfo'...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [INFO] Processing dumper 'mspaint'...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] Dumping for PID XXXX
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] > Calling command 'memdump'...
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [DEBUG] >> volatility --plugins=/path/to/plugins --file=[...]
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [INFO] > /path/to/files/memory.dump/mspaint-2640-memdump.data
[appmemdumper] XX:XX:XX [WARNING]
The following applies to collected objects of:
- mspaint
Raw data (.data files) requires manual handling ;
Follow this procedure:
1. Open the collected resources with Gimp
2. Set the width and height to the expected screen resolution
3. Set another color palette than 'RVB'
Restart this procedure by setting other parameters for width|height|palette.
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