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Analyze volatile memory images (RAM dumps) using Volatility 3 — process enumeration, injected code detection, credential extraction, network artifacts, rootkit analysis, and timeline construction from memory-resident data. Use when examining a memory capture from a compromised host, hunting for injected code or hollowed processes, extracting credentials or network state from RAM, or detecting kernel-level rootkits.

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# Analyzing Memory Images

Memory is the only place certain artifacts exist — injected code, decrypted
payloads, credential material, and network connections from processes that have
already exited. Disk forensics misses all of these. The work is getting the
image before it is lost, then asking the right questions in the right order.

## When to Use

- You have a memory dump (raw, LiME, EWF, crash dump, or VM snapshot) to analyze
- Investigating a compromised host and need artifacts that exist only in RAM
- Looking for injected code, process hollowing, or reflective DLL loading
- Extracting credential material — hashes, Kerberos tickets, cached credentials
- Identifying network connections and listening ports from a point-in-time capture