volatility VS Metasploit

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.

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)

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

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.

Analyzing memory dumps can be hard, especially at the beginning. You might want to use comprehensive Frameworks like volatility.

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

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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