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Windows Forensics Cookbook

By : Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin
Book Image

Windows Forensics Cookbook

By: Scar de Courcier, Oleg Skulkin

Overview of this book

Windows Forensics Cookbook provides recipes to overcome forensic challenges and helps you carry out effective investigations easily on a Windows platform. You will begin with a refresher on digital forensics and evidence acquisition, which will help you to understand the challenges faced while acquiring evidence from Windows systems. Next you will learn to acquire Windows memory data and analyze Windows systems with modern forensic tools. We also cover some more in-depth elements of forensic analysis, such as how to analyze data from Windows system artifacts, parse data from the most commonly-used web browsers and email services, and effectively report on digital forensic investigations. You will see how Windows 10 is different from previous versions and how you can overcome the specific challenges it brings. Finally, you will learn to troubleshoot issues that arise while performing digital forensic investigations. By the end of the book, you will be able to carry out forensics investigations efficiently.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

LNK file analysis with LECmd

LECmd is another great free and open source Windows forensic tool by Eric Zimmerman. It processes files really fast, and can be used for parsing both single LNK files and the folders that contain them. Also, it has quite a wide range of export options, including CSV and XML.

Getting ready

Go to the LECmd download page to get the archive with the tool. Unpack the archive you have downloaded, run the Windows Command Prompt, change the directory to the one you have just unpacked, and you are ready to go.

How to do it...

The steps for LNK files...