Hi Guys, I've been messing around for about a week trying to get volatility to analyse a memory dump of some system. Since this is part of a puzzle I know I should be able to analyse it (although I'm not sure volatility can , but it seems to be my best option). The actual question is this: I assume that I have a dump of a box running kernel version 2.6.32-45.104-generic-pae . How should I correctly create a profile in volatility to analyse this dump? I can create a profile but I don't think it's correct... Because I do make some assumptions, I'd like to share my workflow below. Please feel free to comment! My current setup is: - Recent ubuntu box - On which KVM resides - A "memory.raw" image of the memory of this machine. No other information was provided. First I wanted to determine what OS the image is from, and I had a look by grepping the image like this: strings memory.raw | grep -i <keyword> I scanned for keywords like: - Windows - Ubuntu - Debian - Fedora - RHEL Looks like it's actually ubuntu: boudewijn@ubuntu:~$ strings memory.raw | grep -i ubuntu | wc -l 1668 Okay for determining the kernel version, I started having a look at the output of grepping ubuntu, and I found: Linux version 2.6.32-45-generic-pae (buildd@lamiak) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) ) #104-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 19 21:36:53 UTC 2013 (Ubuntu 2.6.32-45.104-generic-pae 2.6.32.60+drm33.26) Ubuntu 2.6.32-45.104-generic-pae 2.6.32.60+drm33.26 <5>[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-45-generic-pae (buildd@lamiak) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) ) #104-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 19 21:36:53 UTC 2013 (Ubuntu 2.6.32-45.104-generic-pae 2.6.32.60+drm33.26) So I installed this kernel version 2.6.32-45.104-generic-pae, and rebooted (which is less work than changing the makefile etc.... I'm a lazy sod). Okay, make the profile: boudewijn@ubuntu:~/volatility/tools/linux$ make make -C //lib/modules/2.6.32-45-generic-pae/build CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y M=/home/boudewijn/volatility/tools/linux modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic-pae' CC [M] /home/boudewijn/volatility/tools/linux/module.o /home/boudewijn/volatility/tools/linux/module.c:70:33: error: linux/net_namespace.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [/home/boudewijn/volatility/tools/linux/module.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/home/boudewijn/volatility/tools/linux] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic-pae' make: *** [dwarf] Error 2 Fix the include statement , to include /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/include/net/net_namespace.h . make clean ;make followed... Created the overlay: boudewijn@ubuntu:~$ sudo zip volatility/volatility/plugins/overlays/linux/Ubuntu1004.zip volatility/tools/linux/module.dwarf /boot/System.map-2.6.32-45-generic-pae adding: volatility/tools/linux/module.dwarf (deflated 89%) adding: boot/System.map-2.6.32-45-generic-pae (deflated 74%) boudewijn@ubuntu:~$ Then I ran volatility with the newly created profile, and it crashed: boudewijn@ubuntu:~$ python volatility/vol.py -f memory.raw --profile LinuxUbuntu1004x86 imageinfo Volatile Systems Volatility Framework 2.2 Determining profile based on KDBG search... Suggested Profile(s) : No suggestion (Instantiated with LinuxUbuntu1004x86) AS Layer1 : JKIA32PagedMemoryPae (Kernel AS) AS Layer2 : FileAddressSpace (/home/boudewijn/memory.raw) PAE type : PAE DTB : 0x79b000L Traceback (most recent call last): File "volatility/vol.py", line 186, in <module> main() File "volatility/vol.py", line 177, in main command.execute() File "/home/boudewijn/volatility-2.2/volatility/commands.py", line 111, in execute func(outfd, data) File "/home/boudewijn/volatility-2.2/volatility/plugins/imageinfo.py", line 34, in render_text for k, v in data: File "/home/boudewijn/volatility-2.2/volatility/plugins/imageinfo.py", line 91, in calculate kdbgoffset = volmagic.KDBG.v() File "/home/boudewijn/volatility-2.2/volatility/obj.py", line 746, in __getattr__ return self.m(attr) File "/home/boudewijn/volatility-2.2/volatility/obj.py", line 728, in m raise AttributeError("Struct {0} has no member {1}".format(self.obj_name, attr)) AttributeError: Struct VOLATILITY_MAGIC has no member KDBG I thought it might a an amd64 box, but grepping the output of strings memory.raw just renders +- 10 results. Way to few to be an amd64 box. Can anyone tell me what I'm actually doing wrong? Or is volatility just not the right tool for the job. Cheers, Boudewijn Ector