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Practical Windows Forensics

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Practical Windows Forensics

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process. We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Practical Windows Forensics
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface

E-mail investigation


E-mail is one of the most-used methods of communication nowadays, especially in corporate environments. Sending, receiving, or reading e-mails leaves traces in the electronic devices. These traces could help in analyzing cases of targeted attacks, blackmail, espionage, information leakage, and harassment. Traces of e-mail differ according to the way of using the e-mail account, either by webmail or an installed e-mail client.

In webmail, browser investigation and memory forensics could help in retrieving some e-mail data and even in some cases recover access credentials for the e-mail account. In this section, we will discuss the Outlook e-mail client artifacts on the machine.

Outlook PST file

There are many e-mail clients on the market. Outlook from Microsoft is one of the most-used clients. Outlook stores all the messages, contacts, and calendar in a Personal File Folder (PFF) file. One of the PFFs is the Personal Storage Table (PST) file and is saved by default in the...