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Windows Forensics Cookbook

By : Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin
Book Image

Windows Forensics Cookbook

By: Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin

Overview of this book

Windows Forensics Cookbook provides recipes to overcome forensic challenges and helps you carry out effective investigations easily on a Windows platform. You will begin with a refresher on digital forensics and evidence acquisition, which will help you to understand the challenges faced while acquiring evidence from Windows systems. Next you will learn to acquire Windows memory data and analyze Windows systems with modern forensic tools. We also cover some more in-depth elements of forensic analysis, such as how to analyze data from Windows system artifacts, parse data from the most commonly-used web browsers and email services, and effectively report on digital forensic investigations. You will see how Windows 10 is different from previous versions and how you can overcome the specific challenges it brings. Finally, you will learn to troubleshoot issues that arise while performing digital forensic investigations. By the end of the book, you will be able to carry out forensics investigations efficiently.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Windows 10 mail app

The Windows 10 Mail app is similar to previous apps in terms of user experience, however there is a number of forensic differences. The main one is the way in which emails are stored. They are no longer saved as .eml files; rather, they are now saved as HTML or .txt files.

Another neat feature in the new Mail app is the ability to connect to multiple accounts. Much like Gmail, Mail now comes with the ability to switch between different accounts - and users can now add other email providers such as Gmail and Yahoo to their Microsoft Mail apps.

Getting ready

Several forensic tools will be able to extract data from the Mail app. In this example, we are going to talk about FTK Imager, but the process of extracting...