Plaso in practice

Let's take a look how we can use Plaso in practice.

Let's assume that we have an image of the hard drive from the infected PC, and now we need to investigate this case to figure out how the infection occurred.

First, we need observe the image and determine partitions, which we need to analyze. To do this, we need to use the mmls tool from TSK.

Then, we can build bodyfile with log2timeline:

Now, we will use a dynamic format for output. The dynamic output format allows the setting of filtering rules as SQL-SELECT-like requests. We will build our rules based on the following attributes of events:

Attribute	Description
Date	This is the date of the event
Time	This is the time of the event
Timezone	This is the time zone of the event
Source	This is the source of the event (FILE,REG, ...)
Message, Description	This is the description of the event
User	This is the user associated to the event
Host	This is the ID of the computer associated to the event
inode	This is the...