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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)

Event log recovery with EVTXtract

You already know how to export, sort and search through Windows event logs. Now it's time to learn how to recover deleted or corrupted event log artifacts. Thankfully, there is an open source tool by Willi Ballenthin that is capable of solving this problem: EVTXtract. The tool can recover EVTX fragments not only from RAW images, but also from unallocated space and memory dumps.

Getting ready

First of all, since EVTXtract is written in Python, make sure you have this installed on your workstation. If not, go to the official Python website, download and install it. Also, you will need python-evtx, which you can find in Willi's GitHub. Python-evtx is an EVTX parser, which is a dependence...