We will be using Volatility to dump the process from a suspended VirtualBox image. First of all, we need to learn how to dump a VirtualBox image:
- Enable the VirtualBox's debug menu:
- For Windows VirtualBox hosts:
- Enter a new environment variable named VBOX_GUI_DBG_ENABLED and set it to true. This is shown in the following screenshot:

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- For Linux hosts:
- Edit/etc/environment as a root user
- Add a new entry VBOX_GUI_DBG_ENABLED=true
- Execute the command: source /etc/environment
- Restart VirtualBox if already opened
- Run the packed executable in the Windows guest. We are going to run upxed.exe from ...