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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)

LNK file analysis with EnCase forensic

In our previous recipes, you have already learnt how to create a new case, add evidence files, and examine Windows recycle bin contents with EnCase Forensic. Now it's time to go even further, and meet the EnCase Evidence Processor, and especially the Windows Artifact Parser. This module enables a digital forensic examiner to parse different Windows forensic artifacts, including LNK files, automatically.

Getting ready

To use the EnCase Evidence Processor, you should create a case and add an evidence item. You already created a case to examine the recycle bin, so you can use that case here. If it's not available, create a new one and add an image to it. Once done, you are ready...