---
title: "Analyze memory images for processes, modules, and malware indicators with Volatility 3"
description: "Inspect captured RAM images to enumerate processes, modules, handles, and suspicious in-memory behavior before escalation or evidence handoff."
verification: "listed"
source: "https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3"
author: "volatilityfoundation"
publisher_type: "organization"
category:
  - "Runbooks & Diagnostics"
framework:
  - "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "volatilityfoundation/volatility3"
  github_stars: 4062
---

# Analyze memory images for processes, modules, and malware indicators with Volatility 3

Inspect captured RAM images to enumerate processes, modules, handles, and suspicious in-memory behavior before escalation or evidence handoff.

## Prerequisites

Volatility 3 CLI, Python 3.8+ environment, supported memory image file, optional symbol packs depending on target OS

## Installation

Choose whichever fits your setup:

1. Copy this skill folder into your local skills directory.
2. Clone the repo and symlink or copy the skill into your agent workspace.
3. Add the repo as a git submodule if you manage shared skills centrally.
4. Install it through your internal provisioning or packaging workflow.
5. Download the folder directly from GitHub and place it in your skills collection.

Install command or upstream instructions:

```
Install Volatility 3 from PyPI or the upstream repository, make the vol command available in the agent environment, then point it at a captured memory image and run the needed plugins for triage.
```

## Documentation

- https://volatility3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/analyze-memory-images-for-processes-modules-and-malware-indicators-with-volatility-3/)