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Practical Windows Forensics
Practical Windows Forensics

Practical Windows Forensics: Leverage the power of digital forensics for Windows systems

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Practical Windows Forensics

Chapter 2. Incident Response and Live Analysis

The stages of preparation to respond to an incident are a matter which much attention should be paid to. In some cases, the lack of necessary tools during the incident leads to the inability to perform the necessary actions at the right time.

Taking into account that the reaction time of an incident depends on the efficiency of the incident handling process, it becomes clear that in order to prepare the IR team, its technical support should be very careful.

The whole set of requirements can be divided into several categories for the IR team:

  • Skills
  • Hardware
  • Software

Let's consider the main issues that may arise during the preparation of the incident response team in more detail.

If we want to build a computer security incident response team, we need people with a certain set of skills and technical expertise to perform technical tasks and effectively communicate with other external contacts. Now, we will consider the skills of members...

Personal skills

Personal skills are very important for a successful response team. This is because the interaction with team members who are technical experts but have poor social skills can lead to misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the results, the consequences of which may affect the team's reputation.

A list of key personal skills will be discussed in the following sections.

Written communication

For many IR teams, a large part of their communication occurs through written documents. These communications can take many forms, including e-mails concerning incidents documentation of event or incident reports, vulnerabilities, and other technical information notifications. Incident response team members must be able to write clearly and concisely, describe activities accurately, and provide information that is easy for their readers to understand.

Oral communication

The ability to communicate effectively though spoken communication is also an important skill to ensure that the incident...

Security fundamentals

Let's look at some of the security fundamentals in the following subsections.

Security principles

The IR team's members need to have a general understanding of the basic security principles, such as the following:

  • Confidentiality
  • Availability
  • Authentication
  • Integrity
  • Access control
  • Privacy
  • Nonrepudiation

Security vulnerabilities and weaknesses

To understand how any specific attack is manifested in a given software or hardware technology, the IR team's members need to be able to first understand the fundamental causes of vulnerabilities through which most attacks are exploited. They need to be able to recognize and categorize the most common types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks, such as those that might involve the following:

  • Physical security issues
  • Protocol design flaws (for example, man-in-the-middle attacks or spoofing)
  • Malicious code (for example, viruses, worms, or Trojan horses)
  • Implementation flaws (for example, buffer overflow or timing windows/race...

The hardware for IR and Jump Bag

Certainly, a set of equipment that may be required during the processing of the incident should be prepared in advance, and this matter should be given much attention. This set is called the Jump Bag.

The formation of such a kit is largely due to the budget the organization could afford. Nevertheless, there is a certain necessary minimum, which will allow the team to handle incidents in small quantities.

If the budget allows it, it is possible to buy a turnkey solution, which includes all the necessary equipment and the case for its transportation. As an instance of such a solution, FREDL + Ultra Kit could be recommended. FREDL is short for Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device Laptop. With Ultra Kit, this solution will cost about 5000 USD.

Ultra Kit contains a set of write-blockers and a set of adapters and connecters to obtain images of hard drives with a different interface:

The hardware for IR and Jump Bag

Note

More details can be found on the manufacturer's website at https://www...

Remote live response

However, as mentioned earlier, it is often necessary to carry out the collection of information remotely. On Windows systems, this is often done using the SysInternals PsExec utility. PsExec lets you execute commands on remote computers and does not require the installation of the system.

How the program works is a psexec.exe resource executable is another PsExecs executable. This file runs the Windows service on a particular target machine. Before executing the command, PsExec unpacks this hidden resource in the administrative sphere of the remote computer at Admin$ (C:\Windows) file Admin$\system32\psexecsvc.exe.

After copying this, PsExec installs and runs the service using the API functions of the Windows management services. Then, after starting psexesvc, a data connection (input commands and getting results) between psexesvc and psexec is established. Upon completion of the work, psexec stops the service and removes it from the target computer.

If the remote collection...

Personal skills


Personal skills are very important for a successful response team. This is because the interaction with team members who are technical experts but have poor social skills can lead to misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the results, the consequences of which may affect the team's reputation.

A list of key personal skills will be discussed in the following sections.

Written communication

For many IR teams, a large part of their communication occurs through written documents. These communications can take many forms, including e-mails concerning incidents documentation of event or incident reports, vulnerabilities, and other technical information notifications. Incident response team members must be able to write clearly and concisely, describe activities accurately, and provide information that is easy for their readers to understand.

Oral communication

The ability to communicate effectively though spoken communication is also an important skill to ensure that the incident...

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Key benefits

  • • Build your own lab environment to analyze forensic data and practice techniques.
  • • This book offers meticulous coverage with an example-driven approach and helps you build the key skills of performing forensics on Windows-based systems using digital artifacts.
  • • It uses specific open source and Linux-based tools so you can become proficient at analyzing forensic data and upgrade your existing knowledge.

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Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process. We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.

Who is this book for?

This book targets forensic analysts and professionals who would like to develop skills in digital forensic analysis for the Windows platform. You will acquire proficiency, knowledge, and core skills to undertake forensic analysis of digital data. Prior experience of information security and forensic analysis would be helpful. You will gain knowledge and an understanding of performing forensic analysis with tools especially built for the Windows platform.

What you will learn

  • • Perform live analysis on victim or suspect Windows systems locally or remotely
  • • Understand the different natures and acquisition techniques of volatile and non-volatile data.
  • • Create a timeline of all the system actions to restore the history of an incident.
  • • Recover and analyze data from FAT and NTFS file systems.
  • • Make use of various tools to perform registry analysis.
  • • Track a system user s browser and e-mail activities to prove or refute some hypotheses.
  • • Get to know how to dump and analyze computer memory.
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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
1. The Foundations and Principles of Digital Forensics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Incident Response and Live Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Volatile Data Collection Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Nonvolatile Data Acquisition Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Timeline Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Filesystem Analysis and Data Recovery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Registry Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Event Log Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Windows Files Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Browser and E-mail Investigation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Memory Forensics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Network Forensics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
appA. Building a Forensic Analysis Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
appB. Case Study Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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