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Marksman1969
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I have used Blackbag's Macquisition to dump RAM on a running Macbook, using their soft reboot option. However, I am still searching for other tools (or commands) that get the job done. Windows has a lot of (free) tools, Mac hasn't.

Does anybody know any working tool and than of course, working on (High)Sierra. I can't get Rekall/osxpmem working. Is Surumi Recon Imager any good?

 
Posted : 15/05/2018 8:33 am
AmNe5iA
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I've never tried to use it on a Mac but you could try Volatility.

 
Posted : 15/05/2018 10:42 am
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Yeah agree with above, Volatility just released a whole bunch of new mac profiles last week too.

Jamie

 
Posted : 15/05/2018 1:15 pm
 jv89
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I will also agree with the above comments. I have tried volatility for Windows and its a great open source tool. The good thing about it is they are improvising the software regularly and their tech support is great too.

regards

 
Posted : 15/05/2018 4:41 pm
pr3cur50r
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Axiom now has Volatility support also. )

 
Posted : 15/05/2018 11:03 pm
Passmark
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I could be wrong, but I don't think Volatility actually includes any functionality to make a memory dump on a Mac.

 
Posted : 16/05/2018 2:01 am
Shourjo
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Volatility does not support ram dump, is used to extract & analyze artifacts from a dumped volatile memory.
MAC OSx has limited number of tools to dump volatile memory, I would suggest you to use MACQuisition by BlackBag or if you are looking for open source then go for Lime Forensics . However, you have to compile and build Lime module according to the target machine.

 
Posted : 16/05/2018 6:18 am
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Axiom now has Volatility support also. )

Have you tried a mac RAM dump in AXIOM since the volatility support ?

I have and it wasnt able to parse the RAM dump.

 
Posted : 16/05/2018 5:38 pm
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Axiom now has Volatility support also. )

Have you tried a mac RAM dump in AXIOM since the volatility support ?

I have and it wasnt able to parse the RAM dump.

The new Mac profiles came out after we released our support with Volatility, we'll update to include the new profiles in the next update I believe.

If you want to add them before then, you can get the new volatility executable that includes the new mac profiles, go to the AXIOM install folder and swap out the volatility executable for the new one and it should work. The exe swap works pretty great if you want to use beta/test builds from Volatility too.

Jamie McQuaid
Magnet Forensics

 
Posted : 16/05/2018 6:20 pm
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Another option is the pmem suite of tools here. Volatility has support for the format as does Google's Rekall.

 
Posted : 13/07/2018 1:00 pm
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