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Volatility is a widely used open-source framework for analyzing memory captures (RAM dumps) from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. It enables investigators and malware analysts to extract process lists, network connections, DLLs, strings, artifacts, and more. Volatility supports many plugins for detecting hidden processes, malware, rootkits, and event tracing. It’s essential in digital forensics and incident response workflows.

Rekall is a powerful memory forensics framework that turns raw RAM captures—or live system state—into structured artifacts investigators can query and script. It ships with a large collection of plugins that parse OS internals to recover processes, modules, sockets, registry hives, and file objects, even when rootkits try to hide them. The design emphasizes repeatability: investigators run well-defined analyses that produce timelines, indicators, and reports suitable for case work or...