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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 (15 chapters)

Scenario

To conduct this analysis, we created a small virtual network with the following structure:

Scenario

All the scenario parts were created using virtualization, including the required Internet hosts to download the malware. The machine is infected with ZeusVM malware. The malware executable can be downloaded for educational use only from the Zoo at https://github.com/ytisf/theZoo/blob/master/malwares/Binaries/ZeusVM/ZeusVM.zip. The malware sample SHA256 after unzipping is as follows:

b04637c11c63dd5a4a599d7104f0c5880717b5d5b32e0104de5a416963f06118

theZoo is a project that was created to make the possibility of malware analysis open and available to the public. theZoo was created by Yuval tisf Nativ, and it is now maintained by Shahak Shalev.

You can download the malware sample, recreate or infect a virtual machine with this malware, and follow the analysis steps in this appendix.

The machine used in this scenario is Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit.