volatility
An advanced memory forensics framework (by volatilityfoundation)
lynis
Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional. (by CISOfy)
| volatility | lynis | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 73 | |
| 7,718 | 14,383 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 0.0 | 8.8 | |
| 2 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| Python | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
volatility
Posts with mentions or reviews of volatility.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.
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💀 Insomni'hack 2025 CTF write-up
We were given a quite big 20250312.mem file. Looking at the name of the challenge and the size of the file, it was clear it was required to use volatility.
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What is the appropriate uncompressed kernel ELF to use with dwarf2json? [ 5.19.0-42-generic #43~22.04.1-Ubuntu ], in order to create generate a custom symbols table to conduct linux memory forensics on Ubuntu 22.04?
I need this to create generate a custom symbols table (using dwarf2json), in order to run a memory dump acquired by Ubuntu 22.04, as Ubuntu 22.04 kernel does not work anymore with volatility 2 (Issue here: volatilityfoundation/volatility#828)
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volatility memory analysis ep.8 – linux/mac Q!
Take a look at this link and specifically note how the profiles are named, especially Ubuntu - https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility/wiki/Linux-Command-Reference
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Dump file without a extension
I think the typical tool for analyzing OS memory dumps is Volatility but I can't give you a course in how to use it, that is supposedly what your school should be doing.
- memory dump with FTK Imager
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How to inspect a Linux machine
Analyzing memory dumps can be hard, especially at the beginning. You might want to use comprehensive Frameworks like volatility.
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Does anyone know why volatility isnt working?
git clone https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility.git whenever i want to run something I get PS C:\Users\czare_000\python-course-for-beginners\bs4\volatility> & C:/Users/czare_000/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python310/python.exe c:/Users/czare_000/python-course-for-beginners/bs4/volatility/volatility/debug.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\czare_000\python-course-for-beginners\bs4\volatility\volatility\debug.py", line 27, in import volatility.conf ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'volatility' or i also get except Exception, e: ^^^^^^^^^^^^ SyntaxError: multiple exception types must be parenthesized
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Analyzing raw image
Volatility is python based so you will need to install it and volatility's required dependencies. You can find the install instructions here https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility
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PChunter equivalent on Linux?
volatility - Version 2 Version 3
- How do you work on memory analysis nowadays? Discussion about the Volatility status.
lynis
Posts with mentions or reviews of lynis.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-07.
- Lynis – Security auditing and hardening tool, for Unix-based systems
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Who does check linux distros of malware - open source
Linux has (free) tools to improve security and detect/remove malware: Lynis,Chkrootkit,Rkhunter,ClamAV,Vuls,LMD,radare2,Yara,ntopng,maltrail,Snort,Suricata...
- Learn security best practices
- How do i find and remove the compilers installed in fedora?
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Fight against scans, bots and script-kiddies
What I would do in your place is run this https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis and follow some of the instructions.
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What are your favorite sites that are privacy related that you bookmarked?
https://github.com/CISOfy/Lynis (Linux hardening)
- Server security/hardening baselines for Linux Template
- Ultimate privacy when setting up Fedora?
- Linux security tests?
- Vulnerability scanning tools for homelab?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing volatility and lynis you can also consider the following projects:
one_gadget - The best tool for finding one gadget RCE in libc.so.6
Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
MalConfScan - Volatility plugin for extracts configuration data of known malware
OSSEC - OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.
picoCTF - The platform used to run picoCTF 2019.
OSQuery - SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.