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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
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Preface

Chapter 5. Timeline

In this chapter, we will look at timeline analysis. We will learn a few different approaches to perform a timeline analysis with The Sleuth Kit and Plaso Framework. We will also cover some theoretical issues that are specific to some filesystems and how they work with file time-related attributions. Also, we will demonstrate how we can use Plaso in practice.

In a nutshell, we will cover the following topics:

  • Timeline

  • The Sleuth Kit (TSK)

  • Plaso architecture

  • Plaso in practice