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Practical Windows Forensics

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Practical Windows Forensics

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process. We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Practical Windows Forensics
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Preface

Summary


So, in this chapter, we discussed different extra Windows artifacts that are important to digital forensics analysis. We discussed the prefetch files, and how they can be used to track a malicious executable that ran within the system. We also showed the Windows tasks that can be used to preserve a malware existence in the infected Windows system. Then, we showed you how to investigate the photos existing in the system even after deletion using the Thumbcache files. By mentioning deletion, we discussed the Recycle Bin and its structure in different Windows OS versions. In the end, we discussed the shortcut or .lnk files and illustrated how to read their data and their forensic importance.

As opening a malicious URL or opening malicious attachments are the most common ways to infect a machine, in the following chapter, we will discuss browser forensics and show you how to track user activities and investigate the visited websites using different tools with different browsers. Also...