❄️ Volatility MCP Server

📌 Overview

The Volatility MCP Server is a powerful memory forensics automation toolkit powered by Volatility 3. It provides a modular, extensible interface for running Volatility plugins across Windows, Linux, and macOS memory dumps.

It makes memory analysis faster and more accessible via:

✅ Plugin automation
✅ Cross-platform support (Windows, Linux, macOS)
✅ Modular plugin architecture
✅ Rich logging with beautiful formatting
✅ Easy plugin registration and management

Related MCP server: Memory Forensics MCP Server

💡 Key Features

• 🔍 Powered by Volatility 3

• 🧠 Supports Windows, Linux, and macOS plugins

• ⚙️ Asynchronous plugin execution

• 📤 JSON output format

• 📊 Built-in error handling and validation

• 👨‍💻 FastMCP server interface

• 🐳 Docker-ready environment

📦 Requirements

python 3.11+
pip install -r requirements.txt

requirements.txt:

fastmcp
rich
python-dotenv

📁 Project Structure

Volatility-MCP-Server/
├── volatility_mcp_server.py    # Main server implementation
├── plugins/                    # Plugin modules
│   ├── base_plugin.py         # Base plugin class
│   ├── plugin_factory.py      # Plugin registration
│   ├── windows/               # Windows plugins
│   ├── linux/                 # Linux plugins
│   ├── mac/                   # macOS plugins
│   └── common/                # Common plugins
├── requirements.txt           # Dependencies
└── README.md                 # This file

🖥️ Usage

🔧 Local Connection

Using stdio

Create a .cursor/mcp.json file with:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Volatility3": {
      "command": "fastmcp",
      "args": ["run", "path/to/volatility_mcp_server.py:mcp", "--transport", "stdio"]
    }
  }
}

Using sse

Run the server using

fastmcp run volatility_mcp_server.py:mcp --transport sse

For Claude desktop

{
    "mcpServers": {
      "volatility3": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": ["mcp-remote", "http://localhost:8000/sse"]
      }
    }
  }

For Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Volatility3": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8000/sse"
    }
  }
}

📊 Available Plugins

Windows Plugins

• Process: PsList, PsTree, PsScan

• Memory: Malfind, MemMap

• Network: NetScan

• Registry: RegistryHiveList, RegistryPrintKey

• System: SvcScan, CmdLine, DllList, Handles, FileScan

• Disk: ADS, MFTScan, ResidentData

Linux Plugins

• Process: PsList, PsTree, PsScan, PsAux, PsCallStack

• System: Bash, Boottime, Capabilities

• Network: IpAddr, IpLink, Netfilter

• Memory: Malfind, ModuleExtract

• File System: Files, InodePages, RecoverFs

macOS Plugins

• Process: PsList, PsTree, Psaux

• System: Bash, Dmesg, Lsmod

• Network: Ifconfig, Netstat

• Security: Check_syscall, Check_sysctl, Check_trap_table

Common Plugins

• Framework: Banners, ConfigWriter, FrameworkInfo, IsfInfo, LayerWriter

• Scan: RegExScan, YaraScan, Vmscan

• Timeline: Timeliner

🐳 Docker Usage (No idea what I wanted to do here but might be useful in the future)

⚙️ 1. Build the Docker Image

From the root directory:

docker build -t volatility-mcp .

▶️ 2. Run the Server

docker run --rm -it \
  -v $(pwd)/memdumps:/memdumps \
  -v $(pwd)/output:/output \
  volatility-mcp

🔧 Developer/Contributor Guide

🧱 Setup Virtual Environment

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

🧪 Run Locally

python volatility_mcp_server.py

✍️ Customization Tips

• 📀 Want to add a new plugin? Extend BasePlugin and register it in plugin_factory.py

• 🧩 Want to add a new OS? Create a new plugin directory and implement the plugins

• 📚 Want to add new features? The modular architecture makes it easy to extend

🙋 FAQ

🟠 Does this support Volatility 2.x?
🔻 No. This server supports Volatility 3 only for modern plugin support.

🔵 Can I add custom plugins?
✅ Yes! Just extend the BasePlugin class and register it in the factory.

🔴 Why use FastMCP?
It provides a clean, efficient interface for running Volatility plugins with proper error handling and async support.

📜 License

MIT ©️ 2025

🌐 More Tools?

You may also like:

• Volatility Foundation

• FastMCP Documentation

• Python-dotenv