Installing Volatility 3 on Windows
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Volatility 3 is powerful memory forensics tool that allows for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM). It is the most updated and recent version of Volatility.
The one and only prerequisite of installing Volatility 3 is Python 3. Therefore the first step of installation process is to download latest version of Python from the .
When we the python installer gets downloaded (and possibly transferred to the target system like virtual machine dedicated to forensics), installation can be initiated. It is important to add Python to PATH.
To verify the successful installation of Python, we can run python -V to display the installed version.
When Python successfully installed, we can move on with installing Volatility 3 via pip. The following is the command for installing the Volatility 3 and pycryptodome which is a dependency for some of the plugins like windows.hashdump:
When command successfully ran, we can verify the installation with running vol -h command to display the help page.
NOTE: "A symbol table requirement was not fulfilled." is the error indicating that symbol table for the operating system of the analyzed memory dump is missing. When using freshly installed Volatility 3 for the first time, it must be run with Internet access in order to download Symbol Table for the given OS. When the symbol table gets downloaded, Volatility 3 can be run offline (without Internet access).
