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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)

Introduction

It is hard to imagine a case where web browser artifacts are useless. Child abuse material, intellectual property theft, cyber harassment, malware - browser artifacts will help to solve all sorts of cases. Nowadays, a huge number of web browsers are available. Some provide their users with increased privacy options, others do not. But even if the suspect uses a private browser, such as notorious Tor, a computer forensic examiner is able to extract some data, for example from swap and hibernation files (check the last recipe in this chapter) or a memory dump.

In this chapter, we will show you how to perform web browser forensics with some forensic tools you have already dealt with, such as Magnet AXIOM and Belkasoft Evidence Center, and some new ones, such as BlackBag's BlackLight.

Finally, you will learn how to defeat some anti-forensic techniques using swap...