Recent Releases of volatility3
volatility3 - Volatility 3 2.26.0
This release aims to achieve functional parity with the archived and no-longer-supported Volatility 2. As such, there are a number of changes, only some of which are listed below:
New plugins
* linux.graphics.fbdev
* linux.ip
* linux.kallsyms
* linux.module_extract
* linux.modxview
* linux.pscallstack
* linux.tracing.ftrace
* linux.tracing.perf_events
* linux.tracing.tracepoints
* linux.vmaregexscan
* linux.vmcoreinfo
* mac.regexscan
* windows.deskscan
* windows.desktops
* windows.direct_system_calls
* windows.indirect_system_calls
* windows.suspended_threads
* windows.vadregexscan
* windows.windows
* windows.windowstations
Framework Changes
* Modernize to pyproject.toml python packaging
* New testing framework to ensure version/component requirements are fulfilled
New Contributors
- @c0rydoras made their first contribution in https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/pull/1362
- @lesander made their first contribution in https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/pull/1342
- @TheMythologist made their first contribution in https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/pull/1402
- @cgoodwine made their first contribution in https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/pull/1549
- @the-rectifier made their first contribution in https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/pull/1381
- @Danking555 made their first contribution in https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/pull/1566
- @DT9 made their first contribution in https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/pull/1698
Full Changelog: https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/compare/v2.11.0...v2.26.0
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Published by ikelos 9 months ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 2.11.0
New Plugins:
linux.boottimelinux.ebpflinux.hidden_moduleslinux.kthreadslinux.pagecachelinux.pidhashtablelinux.ptracewindows.amcachewindows.cmdscanwindows.consoleswindows.debugregisterswindows.orphan_kernel_threadswindows.pe_symbolswindows.scheduled_taskswindows.unhoooked_system_calls
Improvements to:
- Output formatting and filtering in the CLI
- Additional architecture data files for
vmscan
Note: Python 3.8 is now the minimum supported version of python
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Published by ikelos about 1 year ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 2.8.0
New plugins:
vmscanlinux.netfilterwindows.hollowprocesseswindows.kpcrswindows.pedumpwindows.processghostingwindows.psxviewwindows.registry.getcellroutinewindows.shimcachememwindows.suspicious_threadswindows.svcdiffwindows.svclistwindows.threadswindows.timerswindows.unloadedmodules
Improvements to:
userassistwith timeliner support- bugfixes and additions to
windows.modulesandwindows.modscan windows.callbacksplugin to support more callbacks- Smear protection on windows
- Clearing the cache
- Intel layer
- Clang no longer using
long unsigned intfor pointers argcompletesupport
Volatility 3 now uses features that require a minimum version of python >= 3.7.3.
- Python
Published by ikelos over 1 year ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 2.7.0
- New plugins:
windows.iatwindows.truecryptlinux.library_listmac.dmesg
- Support for configuration files for common CLI options
windows.driverirp: Report IRP entries that point inside a hidden modulewindows.thrdscan: Improvementslinux.kmsg: Supports older kernelsmac.maps: Add process dump support- Support for Python 3.12
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Published by ikelos over 1 year ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 v2.5.2
- New Layers:
- Amazon S3 support
- Google Cloud Storage support
- New plugins:
linux.vmayarascanwindows.mftscan.ads
- New features:
- Dumping of Elf files added to the
elfsplugin
- Dumping of Elf files added to the
- Improvements to ELF support
- Bugfixes to registry support
- Documentation improvements
- Better support for remote ISF directories
- Python
Published by ikelos about 2 years ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 2.5.0
- New plugins:
- Linux capabilities plugin
- Linux process dumping
- Add support for Xen ELF file format
- Improved Linux subsystem support
- Added tutorials to the documentation
- Improved core API
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Published by ikelos over 2 years ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 2.4.1
- New plugins:
- linux.sockstat
- linux.iomem
- linux.psscan
- linux.envars
- windows.drivermodule
- windows.vadwalk
- Pid filtering for Windows pstree plugin
- Minor fixes for Windows callbacks plugin
- Minimum Python version was increased to 3.7
- Python-snappy dependency was replaced with ctypes to ease installation
- Whole codebase was reformatted with black
- Faster release cycle (targetting every 4 months)
- Python
Published by ikelos almost 3 years ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 2.4.0
For the 2.4.0 release, the major version has jumped a few numbers for compatibility, but this is the next release including the following:
- New plugins
- linux.mountinfo
- linux.psaux
- windows.devicetree
- windows.joblinks
- windows.ldrmodules
- windows.mbrscan
- windows.mftscan
- windows.sessions
- Introduced the concept of modules and module requirements
- Unified symbol handling and ISF file caching between OS versions
- Better QEVM support (fixed the QEMU PCI hole)
- Exposed an API for automatic PDB symbol table use
- Improved contributed documentation
- Various bug fixes and changes across the codebase
- Python
Published by ikelos about 3 years ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 2.0.1
A maintenance release to resolve a few issues affecting Windows detection and PDB support.
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Published by ikelos almost 4 years ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 2.0.0
Highlights for this release:
* New plugins such as:
* Windows networking plugins
* Windows crashinfo and skeleton_key_check
* Linux kmsg plugin
* New layers: AVML and LeechCore
* QEMU layer performance optimization
* Improved access to Windows library symbols
* Better offline and remote support
* Improved documentation
* Improved working with python requirements
* Drop support for python 3.5
- Python
Published by ikelos about 4 years ago
volatility3 - Volatility 3 1.0.1
Hotfix release to fix an issue with pypi and setup.py
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Published by ikelos about 5 years ago
volatility3 - v1.0.0
Volatility 3 1.0.0 official release
Highlights of this version are: * Much faster operation over volatility 2 (this is largely down to caching of objects) * Symbol support (symbols can be downloaded and converted for windows directly) * Documentation (the documentation is generated from the code) * Better APIs for developers
Windows binary versions will be added once a solution has been found to all pyinstaller packages being identified as malware.
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Published by ikelos about 5 years ago