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Parsing Linux and Windows Memory Structures

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(@jcroasii)
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Hello all,

I'm currently trying to analyze a memory dump from Windows and Linux. However, I'm having difficulty understanding the memory layout. I understand that in windows, the EPROCESS structure contains information about each process, and in linux, the task_struct contains similiar info.

There are some tools for listing all the processes in a memory dump, but I would like to understand how the tool does this, or just be able to understand how to do this manually (possibly with a hex editor).

Are there any good articles on doing this? Google doesn't turn up many good articles.

Thank you


   
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iruiper
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I believe you can find useful the papers written by Mariusz Burdach, such as "Finding Digital Evidence In Physical Memory". The tool he uses for Linux environments is IDETECT, and I think you can find plenty of info to download and review in the webpage you get from googling "IDETECT Toolkit"

Hope it helps.


   
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