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Practical Windows Forensics

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783554096

Length 322 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Windows Server

Concepts

Forensics

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

Factors that need to be considered

appB. Case Study

Windows Thumbs DB

When the user uses the Thumbnails or Filmstrip views from the Windows folder viewing options, a small thumbnail version of the pictures will be created and stored in a single file. This file is located in the same directory as the pictures in Windows XP and named Thumbs.db. The Thumbs.db file has a thumbnail version of the existing and also deleted pictures. Thumbs.db is a hidden file, and usually the user ignores it:

Figure 5: Files viewing options

If the user has deleted the pictures but hasn't delete the Thumbs.db file, it will be possible to recover the thumbnail version of the pictures deleted from that directory, which provide a good clue about the pictures' contents. Besides the thumbnail version of the picture, Thumbs.db contains the file name and the date and time of the last modification.

This Thumbs.db file is very important in cases related to pictures, such as child pornography cases.

Starting from Windows 7, the process of handling thumbnails files changed. All...

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