Volatility 3 Memory Forensics Automation Platform

Architecture Overview

Enterprise-grade memory forensics platform built for Linux VPS deployment, featuring automated Volatility 3 analysis, artifact extraction, and web-based visualization.

System Components

Backend Stack

• FastAPI: REST API server
• Celery: Distributed task queue
• Redis: Message broker and cache
• PostgreSQL: Metadata and results storage
• Docker: Container isolation

Forensic Tools

• Volatility 3 (memory analysis)
• binwalk (firmware/binary analysis)
• exiftool (metadata extraction)

Frontend

• React/Vue (dashboard and visualization)
• WebSocket (real-time job updates)

Directory Structure

forensicweb/
├── backend/
│   ├── api/                    # FastAPI routes
│   ├── core/                   # Core business logic
│   ├── workers/                # Celery tasks
│   ├── models/                 # Database models
│   ├── schemas/                # Pydantic schemas
│   ├── utils/                  # Utilities
│   └── config.py               # Configuration
├── frontend/                   # Web UI
├── docker/                     # Docker configs
├── storage/                    # Data storage
│   ├── uploads/                # Memory images
│   ├── artifacts/              # Extracted files
│   ├── results/                # JSON outputs
│   └── logs/                   # Analysis logs
├── tests/                      # Test suites
└── deploy/                     # Deployment scripts

Security Model

1. Upload Validation: Size limits, magic byte verification
2. Process Isolation: Containerized workers
3. Authentication: JWT-based API access
4. Rate Limiting: Per-IP and per-user
5. Artifact Quarantine: Sandboxed extraction zones

Deployment

# Production deployment
docker-compose up -d

# Development mode
./scripts/dev.sh

API Endpoints

• POST /api/v1/upload - Upload memory image
• POST /api/v1/upload/from-url - Queue download from URL (async, no size limit)
• GET /api/v1/upload/status/{image_id} - Check download/upload status
• POST /api/v1/jobs - Create analysis job
• GET /api/v1/jobs/{job_id} - Job status
• GET /api/v1/results/{job_id} - Analysis results
• GET /api/v1/artifacts/{job_id} - List artifacts
• GET /api/v1/download/{artifact_id} - Download artifact

Supported Volatility Plugins

• pslist, pstree (process enumeration)
• netscan (network connections)
• cmdline (command line arguments)
• malfind (code injection detection)
• filescan, dumpfiles (file recovery)
• handles (handle enumeration)
• vadinfo (VAD tree analysis)

Future Extensions

• Elasticsearch integration for full-text search
• YARA scanning of extracted regions
• Timeline correlation engine
• Multi-node worker cluster
• Automated IOC extraction
• MITRE ATT&CK mapping