The Volatility Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the GNU General Public License, for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples. The extraction techniques are performed completely independent of the system being investigated but offer unprecedented visibilty into the runtime state of the system. The framework is intended to introduce people to the techniques and complexities associated with extracting digital artifacts from volatile memory samples and provide a platform for further work into this exciting area of research.

Release Highlights

Windows
    new plugins to parse IE history/index.dat URLs, recover shellbags data, dump cached files (exe/pdf/doc/etc), extract the MBR and MFT records, explore recently unloaded kernel modules, dump SSL private and public keys/certs, and display details on process privileges
    added plugins to detect poison ivy infections, find and decrypt configurations in memory for poison ivy, zeus v1, zeus v2 and citadelscan 1.3.4.5
    apihooks detects duqu style instruction modifications (MOV reg32, imm32; JMP reg32)
    crashinfo displays uptime, systemtime, and dump type (i.e. kernel, complete, etc)
    psxview plugin adds two new sources of process listings from the GUI APIs
    screenshots plugin shows text for window titles
    svcscan automatically queries the cached registry for service dlls
    dlllist shows load count to distinguish between static and dynamic loaded dlls 
New address spaces
    added support for VirtualBox ELF64 core dumps, VMware saved state (vmss) and snapshot (vmsn) files, and FDPro's non-standard HPAK format
    associated plugins: vboxinfo, vmwareinfo, hpakinfo, hpakextract 
Mac
    new MachO address space for 32- and 64-bit Mac memory samples
    over 30+ plugins for Mac memory forensics 
Linux/Android
    new ARM address space to support memory dumps from Linux and Android devices on ARM
    added plugins to scan linux process and kernel memory with yara signatures, dump LKMs to disk, and check TTY devices for rootkit hooks
    added plugins to check the ARM system call and exception vector tables for hooks 

download:

http://code.google.com/p/volatility/downloads/list