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Windows Forensics Cookbook

By : Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin
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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)

Drive acquisition in RAW format with dc3dd

DC3DD (by Jesse Kornblum) is a patched version of the classic GNU dd utility with some computer forensics features. For example, the fly hashing with a number of algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512, showing the progress of the acquisition process, and so on.

Getting ready

You can find a compiled standalone version of DC3DD for Windows at SourceForge. Just download the ZIP or 7z archive, unpack it, and you are ready to go.

How to do it...

The steps for drive acquisition in RAW format using dc3dd are as follows...