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Showing posts with label Goldfish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goldfish. Show all posts

2012-06-01

Goldfish

Friday, June 01, 2012 Posted by Unknown , , , No comments
Project: Goldfish
Purpose: MAC OS X automated memory acquisition and analysis tool
Status: Active
License: GNU GPLv3
Developer(s): Pavel Gladyshev, Afrah Almansoori

More information:
Goldfish is a MAC OS X live forensic tool for use by law enforcement. Its main purpose is to provide an easy to use interface to dump system RAM of a target OS X machine via a firewire connection. It then automatically extracts the current user login password and any open AIM conversation fragments that may be available.

Related Publications:

Gladyshev, P. and A. Almansoori (2010). Reliable Acquisition of RAM dumps from Intel-based Apple Mac computers over FireWire. Second International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C). Abu Dhabi, UAE, ICST.


2009-03-19

FireWire DMA Attacks for Memory Acquisition

Thursday, March 19, 2009 Posted by Unknown , No comments
Firewire exploits that can be used to dump, or even alter a target machine's RAM.
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-firewire-dma-part-1-overview-and-mitigation

The same method is used by Goldfish to acquire RAM.  For more information please see: Reliable Acquisition of RAM Dumps from Intel-Based Apple Mac Computers over FireWire