by Oleg Skulkin & Igor Mikhaylov
Metasploit Framework is not only very popular among pentesters, but is also quite often used by real adversaries. So why is memory forensics important here? Because Meterpreter, for example – an advanced, dynamically extensible Metasploit payload – resides entirely in the memory and writes nothing to the victim’s drive. In this article we will show you how to use the Volatility Framework to find Metasploit traces with memory forensics.
As we are analyzing a memory image, first of all we should gather information about the operating system to choose the right Volatility profile. If you ask us, the best practice here is to document the OS version during memory imaging process, as Volatility does not always detect it correctly. Anyway, if you get the memory image from the third party and the OS version is unknown, use the imageinfo plugin.
