Creating timelines
Timelines are extremely useful. They can play an important role in your investigation because not only can you find out details about what happened to the target system during a certain period of time, but you can also reconstruct the actions of the attackers step by step. Here are a few approaches of how to use timelines:
- Analysis of system changes during the incident: If you already have data regarding the time of the incident, you can use the timeline to analyze the changes that occurred in the target system during this period.
- Analysis of the file's timestamps: Using the filesystem-based timeline, you can search for entries that correspond to specific files and analyze timestamps of their appearance or the actions performed on them.
- Search for malicious program execution: In the memory-based timeline, you will be able to observe the creation of processes corresponding to various programs, including malware, and in the filesystem-based timeline...