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Practical Windows Forensics

You're reading from   Practical Windows Forensics Leverage the power of digital forensics for Windows systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783554096
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The Foundations and Principles of Digital Forensics FREE CHAPTER 2. Incident Response and Live Analysis 3. Volatile Data Collection 4. Nonvolatile Data Acquisition 5. Timeline 6. Filesystem Analysis and Data Recovery 7. Registry Analysis 8. Event Log Analysis 9. Windows Files 10. Browser and E-mail Investigation 11. Memory Forensics 12. Network Forensics appA. Building a Forensic Analysis Environment appB. Case Study

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So, in this chapter, we discussed different extra Windows artifacts that are important to digital forensics analysis. We discussed the prefetch files, and how they can be used to track a malicious executable that ran within the system. We also showed the Windows tasks that can be used to preserve a malware existence in the infected Windows system. Then, we showed you how to investigate the photos existing in the system even after deletion using the Thumbcache files. By mentioning deletion, we discussed the Recycle Bin and its structure in different Windows OS versions. In the end, we discussed the shortcut or .lnk files and illustrated how to read their data and their forensic importance.

As opening a malicious URL or opening malicious attachments are the most common ways to infect a machine, in the following chapter, we will discuss browser forensics and show you how to track user activities and investigate the visited websites using different tools with different browsers. Also...

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