conducting-memory-forensics-with-volatility

conducting-memory-forensics-with-volatility is a skill for Claude Code from 26zl/cybersec-toolkit. It costs 87 tokens per session (2,639 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A memory forensics procedure that examines a computer's RAM using Volatility 3, a tool for investigating live-memory captures, to find malicious processes, injected code, network connections, and stolen credentials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during incident response to investigate suspected process injection, rootkits, credential theft, or ransomware. It is for RAM dumps, not disk images or ordinary file-system analysis.
Why use it?
It preserves clues that may disappear when a compromised machine is shut down, including fileless malware and encryption keys that may not exist on disk.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the cybersec-toolkit plugin — 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it during incident response to investigate suspected process injection, rootkits, credential theft, or ransomware. It is for RAM dumps, not disk images or ordinary file-system analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/conducting-memory-forensics-with-volatility
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add 26zl/cybersec-toolkit --skill conducting-memory-forensics-with-volatility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/26zl/cybersec-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersec-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to critical

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • critical YARA Match · line 243
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • high YARA Match · line 42
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00087 $0.02639
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01319
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00528
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00264

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1959b65c644e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

conducting-memory-forensics-with-volatility scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Harvests environment variablesmediumData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

### Step 6: Extract Credentials and Artifacts

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/conducting-memory-forensics-with-volatility/SKILL.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conducting Memory Forensics with Volatility

When to Use

  • An endpoint has been contained during an active incident and volatile evidence must be preserved
  • EDR alerts suggest process injection or fileless malware that only exists in memory
  • Encryption keys need to be recovered from a ransomware-infected system before shutdown
  • Credential theft (Mimikatz, LSASS dumping) is suspected and evidence must be confirmed
  • A rootkit or kernel-level compromise is suspected and disk-based analysis is insufficient

Do not use for analyzing disk images or file system artifacts; use disk forensics tools (Autopsy, FTK) for those tasks.

Prerequisites

  • Memory acquisition tool deployed or available: WinPmem, Magnet RAM Capture, DumpIt, or AVML (Linux)
  • Volatility 3 installed with Python 3.8+ and required symbol tables
  • Sufficient storage for memory dumps (equal to system RAM size, typically 8-64 GB)
  • YARA rules for malware detection in memory (Florian Roth's signature-base, custom rules)
  • Reference baseline of normal processes and DLLs for the OS version being analyzed
  • Chain of custody documentation for evidence handling

Workflow

Step 1: Acquire Memory Image

Capture RAM from the target system using a forensically sound method:

Windows (WinPmem):

winpmem_mini_x64.exe output.raw

Windows (Magnet RAM Capture):

MagnetRAMCapture.exe
# GUI-based, select output path, generates .raw file

Windows (DumpIt):

DumpIt.exe
# Creates memory dump in current directory automatically

Linux (AVML - Acquire Volatile Memory for Linux):

./avml output.lime

Document acquisition metadata:

Acquisition Record:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Target Host:      WKSTN-042
RAM Size:         16 GB
Dump File:        WKSTN-042_20251115_1445.raw
Dump Size:        16,843,612,160 bytes
SHA-256:          a4b3c2d1e5f6...
Acquisition Tool: WinPmem 4.0
Acquired By:      [Analyst Name]
Timestamp:        2025-11-15T14:45:00Z

Step 2: Identify the Operating System and Profile

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 288 lines · 87 tokens per session scan B 1959b65c644e

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conducting-memory-forensics-with-volatility is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (51 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,639 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (harvests environment variables). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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