analyzing-memory-dumps-with-volatility

analyzing-memory-dumps-with-volatility is a skill for Claude Code from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,960 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to examining RAM dumps from compromised Windows, Linux, or macOS systems with Volatility. A RAM dump is a saved copy of a computer's working memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate malicious processes, injected code, network connections, hidden modules, rootkits, credentials, encryption keys, and fileless malware.
Why use it?
Malware can run without leaving useful files on disk, and running systems may contain decrypted secrets or hidden processes. Memory analysis can expose evidence that disk tools miss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cybersecurity-skills plugin — 56 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate malicious processes, injected code, network connections, hidden modules, rootkits, credentials, encryption keys, and fileless malware.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/analyzing-memory-dumps-with-volatility
About the project

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills is a library of structured cybersecurity procedures for AI agents, covering security domains and mappings to established security frameworks. It is for authorized security analysis, penetration testing, incident response, research, defense, and education across compatible AI platforms. The catalogue entries package parts of this library as agent skills, instructions, or a plugin.

mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills · 32,541 stars · on GitHub · mahipal.engineer

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill analyzing-memory-dumps-with-volatility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersecurity-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,960 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 6 Apr 2026
  • Snyk fail 6 Apr 2026
  • 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 302
    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.
  • critical YARA Match · line 305
    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 $0.00080 $0.02960
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01480
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00592
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00296

Measured 11d ago against content hash 59e91aebae4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

analyzing-memory-dumps-with-volatility scanned grade C 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 11d 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 variableshighData exfiltration

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

# Extract environment variables
Origin

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/analyzing-memory-dumps-with-volatility/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Memory Dumps with Volatility

When to Use

  • A compromised system's RAM has been captured and needs forensic analysis for malware artifacts
  • Detecting fileless malware that exists only in memory without persistent disk artifacts
  • Extracting encryption keys, passwords, or decrypted configuration from process memory
  • Identifying process injection, DLL injection, or process hollowing in a compromised system
  • Analyzing rootkit activity that hides from standard disk-based forensic tools

Do not use for disk image analysis; use Autopsy, FTK, or Sleuth Kit for disk forensics.

Prerequisites

  • Volatility 3 installed (pip install volatility3) with symbol tables for target OS
  • Memory dump file acquired from the target system (using WinPmem, LiME, or DumpIt)
  • Knowledge of the source OS version for correct profile/symbol selection
  • Sufficient disk space (memory dumps can be 4-64 GB)
  • YARA rules for scanning memory for known malware signatures
  • Strings utility for extracting readable strings from memory regions

Workflow

Step 1: Identify the Memory Dump Profile

Determine the operating system and version from the memory dump:

# Volatility 3: Automatic OS detection
vol3 -f memory.dmp windows.info

# List available plugins
vol3 -f memory.dmp --help

# If symbols are needed, download from:
# https://downloads.volatilityfoundation.org/volatility3/symbols/

# For Volatility 2 (legacy):
vol2 -f memory.dmp imageinfo
vol2 -f memory.dmp kdbgscan

Step 2: Enumerate Running Processes

List all processes and identify suspicious entries:

# List all processes
vol3 -f memory.dmp windows.pslist

# Process tree (parent-child relationships)
vol3 -f memory.dmp windows.pstree

# Scan for hidden/unlinked processes (rootkit detection)
vol3 -f memory.dmp windows.psscan

# Compare pslist vs psscan to find hidden processes
# Processes in psscan but not pslist are potentially hidden by rootkits

# Check for process hollowing
vol3 -f memory.dmp windows.pslist --dump
# Then verify the dumped EXE matches the expected binary on disk

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 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. 11d ago First seen · 314 lines · 80 tokens per session scan C 59e91aebae4d

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analyzing-memory-dumps-with-volatility is a skill published in the GitHub repository mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills (32,541 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,960 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (harvests environment variables). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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