analyzing-malware-in-memory-with-volatility3

analyzing-malware-in-memory-with-volatility3 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 73 tokens per session (876 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A memory-forensics workflow for examining a computer’s RAM image with Volatility 3, a tool for investigating live memory. It looks for unusual processes, injected code, network connections, loaded modules, and signs of persistence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate suspected infections, inspect process trees and command lines, find injected code, review network activity, and extract suspicious memory regions.
Why use it?
Some malware runs only in memory and may leave little evidence on disk. Examining RAM can reveal activity that ordinary file-based investigation misses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to investigate suspected infections, inspect process trees and command lines, find injected code, review network activity, and extract suspicious memory regions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack/analyzing-malware-in-memory-with-volatility3
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack --skill analyzing-malware-in-memory-with-volatility3
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 876 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00073 $0.00876
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00438
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00088

Measured 10d ago against content hash c12855de173a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-malware-in-memory-with-volatility3 scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/analyst.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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/analyzing-malware-in-memory-with-volatility3/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Malware in Memory with Volatility 3

When to Use

  • You have a RAM image from a suspected-infected host and need to find malicious activity.
  • Disk artifacts are insufficient (fileless/in-memory malware) and you need volatile evidence.
  • You want to extract injected code, command lines, or network connections for analysis.

Do not use Volatility plugins blindly without an order of investigation — start broad (processes, network) before deep per-process dumps.

Prerequisites

  • Volatility 3 (pip install volatility3) with appropriate symbol tables.
  • A memory image acquired with a sound tool (WinPmem, LiME, or hypervisor snapshot).
  • Knowledge of the source OS/version to select the right symbols.

Safety & Handling

  • Work on a copy of the image; preserve the original with a recorded hash.
  • Treat any dumped executable region as a live sample — store and handle it accordingly.

Workflow

Step 1: Enumerate processes and spot anomalies

vol -f memory.raw windows.pslist
vol -f memory.raw windows.pstree

Look for unusual parents (Word spawning cmd/powershell), masquerading names (scvhost.exe), processes with no disk path, and orphaned children.

Step 2: Hunt injected code

vol -f memory.raw windows.malfind

malfind flags private, executable, RWX regions with no backing file — classic injection. Note the PID and base address for dumping.

Step 3: Review network connections

vol -f memory.raw windows.netscan

Correlate listening/established connections with suspicious PIDs and the C2 endpoints from other analysis.

Step 4: Check modules, handles, and persistence

Examine loaded DLLs (windows.dlllist), services, and registry (windows.registry.*) for persistence and unexpected modules.

Step 5: Dump artifacts

Dump the suspicious process or injected region for static/RE analysis:

vol -f memory.raw windows.dumpfiles --pid <pid>

The helper script parses Volatility's JSON renderer output to highlight injection candidates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 10d ago First seen · 120 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A c12855de173a

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analyzing-malware-in-memory-with-volatility3 is a skill published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 876 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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