When a security breach strikes, the instinct to immediately reboot or isolate a compromised machine can inadvertently wipe out your best forensic evidence. Volatile memory (RAM) holds the live footprint of an attack, including fileless malware, active network connections, injected processes, and decrypted credentials that never touches the hard drive.
vol.exe -f RAM.raw imageinfo
vol.exe -f RAM.raw --profile=Win7SP0x64 pslist > pslist.txt
vol.exe -f RAM.raw --profile=Win7SP0x64 pstree > pstree.txt
vol.exe -f RAM.raw --profile=Win7SP0x64 netscan > netscan.txt
vol.exe -f RAM.raw --profile=Win7SP0x64 cmdline > cmdline.txt
vol.exe -f RAM.raw --profile=Win7SP0x64 dumpfiles -p 1724 ‑‑dump-dir="D:\LAB"
