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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)

Registry analysis


After we have extracted the registry files from the live system or the forensic image, we need to analyze them.

We will use RegistryRipper, and sysinternals for registry parsing and analysis.

RegistryRipper

Regripper is a Perl open source and cross-platform tool by Harlan Carvey, which can be downloaded from https://code.google.com/p/regripper/ . It parses the registry structure, searches for the forensically important areas, and lists the contents of these areas. The investigator needs to understand the results and extract the anomalies from the output.

The tool is a command line tool, and it also has a simple GUI to carve different types of hives. Through the GUI, the investigator will be able to select one hive file for analysis and the list of plugins to run against this hive file by selecting the type of the hive file from the Profile dropdown. The report will be created in the txt format, and a log file will be created through the analysis process in order to view the...