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One of the important parts of Malware analysis is Random Access Memory (RAM) analysis. It helps to identify the running malicious processes, network activities, open connections etc in the compromised system. This article is about the open source security tool "Volatility" for volatile memory analysis. It can be used for both 32/64 bit systems RAM analysis and it supports analysis of Windows, Linux, Mac & Android systems.

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By: Fiundai
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and if it doesn't run I get the following error:

apt-get install volatility                                      Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneSome packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstabledistribution that some required packages have not yet been createdor been moved out of Incoming.The following information may help to resolve the situation:The following packages have unmet dependencies: volatility : Depends: python-crypto but it is not installable              Depends: python-distorm3 but it is not installable              Depends: python-openpyxl but it is not installable              Depends: python-pil but it is not installable              Depends: python-yara but it is not installableE: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.