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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
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how the files are organized in the filesystem, and how it differs from FAT to NTFS. Then, we learned about reading files from a forensic image using TSK and its GUI Autopsy. We also discussed file carving and how to recover a file, based on its signature using Foremost.

In the next chapter, we will learn about Windows registry—a complex yet very important artifact in the Windows operating system. We will learn about registry structure, and its important value to the investigation and different tools to parse and analyze the registry.