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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)

Mounting VSCs from disk images with VSSADMIN and MKLINK

VSSADMIN is a built-in Windows command-line tool capable of displaying Volume Shadow Copies. You can use it not only on a running Windows system, but also on disk images. In this recipe, we will show you how to do it.

Getting ready

As the tool we are going to use is built-in, there is no need for installation: if you are using Windows, you already have it. So all you need is to mount a forensic image, and you already know how to do this from Chapter 3, Windows Drive Acquisition. As soon as the image is mounted, you are ready to go.

How to do it...

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