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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.
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Super timeline – Plaso


The filesystem is not the only source of data that contains timestamps of events in the system. When computers work, even when users do not do anything, a lot of events occur in the system. For example, Windows XP creates a System Restore Point every 24 hours, runs disk defragmentation every three days so that sectors of deleted files will be rewritten. Windows 7 has a Volume Shadow Copy mechanism, which also creates backup files and so on. All these actions occur automatically without any user activity. So, even in idle mode, Windows has a lot of events. In the case that the system has active users, we would see many more events. The information about these events will reflect in different places: in the registry, event log files, log files of applications, browser history, and so on.

If we could use all of these sources in the timeline, we could make a whole picture of what happened in the system and link different events in logical chain. This approach is called...

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