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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)

NTFS Analysis with The Sleuth Kit

The Sleuth Kit is a collection of command-line tools (and also a library) for the forensic analysis of drive images. These tools can help you with analysis of both volume and file system data (in a non-intrusive fashion, of course). It's cross-platform, so you can use any operating system you like to work with this toolkit. It supports both RAW and E01 images, so you can use any image that you acquired while following the previous recipes. This collection of tools will be very useful in your future digital forensic examinations: it supports a wide range of file systems, including NTFS, FAT, ExFAT, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, HFS, and so on.

Getting ready

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