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You're reading from Windows Forensics Cookbook Over 60 practical recipes to acquire memory data and analyze systems with the latest Windows forensic tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784390495

Length 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Windows OS

Concepts

Forensics

Authors (2):

Oleg Skulkin

Scar de Courcier

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Digital Forensics and Evidence Acquisition FREE CHAPTER

2. Windows Memory Acquisition and Analysis

3. Windows Drive Acquisition

4. Windows File System Analysis

5. Windows Shadow Copies Analysis

6. Windows Registry Analysis

7. Main Windows Operating System Artifacts

8. Web Browser Forensics

9. Email and Instant Messaging Forensics

10. Windows 10 Forensics

11. Data Visualization

12. Troubleshooting in Windows Forensic Analysis

Windows 10 Xbox App

As the name suggests, Windows 10's Xbox application allows users to play Xbox games on their Windows 10 machines. At first glance, this may not sound like a particularly forensically interesting source of information. However, looking under the hood we can find a wealth of data that can be leveraged in investigations. This section will take you through how to do that.

Getting ready

The information we are looking for can all be found in the Packages directory at the following location:

\Users\Username\AppData\Local\LocalState\ModelManager

You are looking for the Xboxlivegamer.xml file, which contains information that may be relevant to your case. Also, since Xbox is a gaming platform and many people...

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Authors (2)

de Courcier

Scar de Courcier is Senior Editor at digital forensics website Forensic Focus. She also works as an independent consultant on online and offline child protection projects. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, pretending she lives on the USS Voyager, and hanging out with her cat.

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Oleg Skulkin

Oleg Skulkin is the Head of Digital Forensics and Malware Analysis Laboratory at Group-IB. Oleg has worked in the fields of digital forensics, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence and research for over a decade, fueling his passion for uncovering new techniques used by hidden adversaries. Oleg has authored and co-authored multiple blog posts, papers, and books on related topics and holds GCFA and GCTI certifications.

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