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

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Practical Windows Forensics

Chapter 1. The Foundations and Principles of Digital Forensics

Everything around us is changing, the way that we communicate, how we do our work, how we store or retrieve data, and even the rate of life is changing. Technology is changing everything. Crime has its share of the change because the nature of targeted valuable assets has changed, it is digital now. The normal users can now perform monetary transactions without leaving their chair, and corporations and businesses of different sizes and types usually exchange their sensitive data using their local network. So in return, instead of breaking into banks or companies, crime has also gone digital. Nowadays, your personal information, bank account details, and your corporate database are some of the targets for digital criminals.

So, how can we investigate these crimes? The investigation concepts haven't changed. This is what we will look at in this introductory chapter.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is digital crime?
  • Digital evidence
  • Digital forensics goals
  • Analysis approaches

What is digital crime?

Let's suppose that a criminal breaks into a bank to steal the money in the safe, and in another case an attacker somehow hacked into the bank's private network and transferred money to his account. Both of these are targeting the monetary assets of the company.

In the first case, if an investigator needs to track a criminal, they would apply their investigation skills to the crime scene. They would track the attacker's fingerprints and activities to finally get a clear idea about what happened and identify the criminal. In the second scenario, the investigator needs to track the criminal's digital traces on the local system, the network, and even through the Internet in order to understand the criminal's activities, and this may uncover their digital identity.

In an ordinary crime, the investigator needs to find the crime's motivation and target. In cybercrime, the investigator needs to know the malicious code—the weapon—that the attacker used in conducting their crime, the vulnerability exploited to compromise the digital system, and the size of the damage. In the same way, we can apply the same investigation mechanisms to digital crime after taking into consideration the different nature of assets and attacks.

There are various targets of digital crime. These start from harassment to stealing credit cards and money online, to espionage between countries or big companies; as we recently saw there were some famous and aggressive malware programs and attacks that were thought to be developed with nation-level support against other nations, targeting some infrastructure or sensitive information. Also, these attacks that were targeted at some famous companies in different fields led to information and data leakage.

For these reasons, investing in securing the assets in their digital form has gained great importance in the last decade in both governmental and private sectors. One branch of the information security process is digital forensics.

Digital forensics

Identifying and analyzing information security incidents and the related digital evidence is called digital forensics. Generally, forensic science is the scientific method of gathering and examining data about the past to extract useful information related to the case under investigation. Digital forensics is the analysis of digital evidence in order to answer questions related to a digital incident, which takes place at the time of the analysis in case of a live analysis or takes place in the past; this is called postmortem analysis.

Postmortem analysis is applied after the incident has occurred, and it usually takes place in all cases. However, some cases require the analysis to be conducted during the incident. Generally, the analysis can confirm or refute a hypothesis about the incident to rebuild a full picture about the activities of both the attacker and the victim during the time of the incident.

One of the definitions of digital forensics is Rodney McKemmish's, which stated the following:

"Forensic Computing is the process of identifying, preserving, analyzing, and presenting digital evidence in a manner that is legally acceptable."

From this, we can divide the digital forensics analysis into four subphases, which also represent the four principles of a successful process:

  • Identification: The investigator or the analyst must understand the circumstances of the incident and collect the data that is important to the investigation. They need to understand the usual behavior of the systems and the structure of the network, and they need to interview responsible individuals if needed. These are important to totally understand the environment and handle the possible evidence properly so that they do not lose valuable information or miss collecting related evidence.

    During incident handling, the first responder may need to acquire a live system. Each acquisition or analysis step performed on a live system will leave a trace, and in some cases, this overwrites previous data or traces either in the system memory or on the hard drive. The responder must understand the consequences of using the handling tools on the system and try to minimize their tools' traces on the system in order to minimize data loss during incident handling.

  • Acquisition and preservation: The acquisition methods of digital evidence must ensure integrity preservation of the evidence and justify this when needed.

    Acquiring all the data from the incident scene will help in the analysis phase to build a whole picture of the incident. In a busy working environment, retrieving the status of the incident scene won't be easy. One way to memorize this is to take notes about all the systems in the scene, and in some cases, taking snapshots will be beneficial to remembering how these devices were connected.

  • Analysis: Different platforms and technologies mean different types of evidence, which need to be examined. Therefore, the analyst or the investigator needs to have the required technical and investigation skills to find and extract the related information to the case under investigation.

    The analyst needs to examine all the data collected even if the case has been solved. Examining all the evidence could provide new clues or state new possibilities.

  • Reporting and presentation of the digital evidence: This should summarize the first three phases of the process. It should include the steps taken in order to identify, seize, and examine the digital evidence. Besides including the findings of the examination, the conclusion of the findings and the expert opinion must be included in the report.

Digital evidence

As a normal reaction, the change in technology led to a change of possible evidence, as compared to previous traditional evidence. All the components of the computer system could be evidence, such as the following:

  • The hard drive of the criminal or the victim
  • The operating system artifacts and special files
  • The network traffic
  • The computer memory
  • Mobile phones and tablets
  • Cloud storage
  • Shared storage
  • Network devices
  • The systems' logs
  • The devices' logs
  • GPS devices
  • Simply, any device that can store or process data

Due to the wide range of possible evidence, the incident handler or first responder who will handle and process the available devices in the incident scene must have sufficient experience in dealing with whatever types of evidence they may find at the scene.

Handling digital devices is a very significant task, which the whole investigation process relies on. This is considered to be one of the main principal needs that have to be fulfilled in order to conduct successful digital analysis.

Digital forensic goals

The main object in the digital forensic analysis is the digital device related to the security incident under investigation. The digital device was either used to commit a crime, to target an attack, or is a source of information for the analyst. The goals of the analysis phase in the digital forensics process differ from one case to another. It can be used to support or refute assumptions against individuals or entities, or it can be used to investigate information security incidents locally on the system or over a network.

Consider analyzing a compromised system, the goals of the digital forensics, as a whole, are to answer these questions:

  • What happened to the system under analysis?
  • How was it compromised?

During the analysis too, the analyst could answer some other questions based on their findings, such as the following:

  • Who is the attacker? This asks whether the analyst could find the attacker IP and/or an IP of the command and control server or in some cases the attacker profile.
  • When did it happen? This asks whether the analyst could ascertain the time of the infection or compromise.
  • Where did it happen? This asks whether the analyst could identify the compromised systems in the network and the possibility of other victims.
  • Why did it happen? This is based on the attacker's activities in the hacked system, the analyst can form an idea of the attacker's motivation, either financial, espionage, or other.

Analysis approaches

During incident handling, each case can be considered as a different scenario. Therefore, different approaches can take place during the first response, based on the circumstances of the individual case. There are two general approaches that can be used to deal with a security incident:

  • Live analysis: This is usually performed when the analyst has a live system in hand. Shutting the system down is one of the "don'ts" that the responder shouldn't do. Performing some primary analysis of the live system can provide valuable information that can guide the analyst in the future investigation. Also, in some situations, a quick analysis of the incident is highly required when there is no time to go through the normal steps of the analysis.
  • Postmortem analysis: This is the normal steps of the process, where the responder acquires all the available data from the incident scene, and then conducts postmortem analysis on the evidence.

Mainly, the hybrid approach is considered the best, where the responder conducts the live analysis on the powered on and accessible systems, records their findings, and acquires all the data, including the live ones, for postmortem analysis. Combining both results from live and postmortem analysis can clearly explain the status of the system under investigation. Performing the acquisition first in such a case is the best practice as the evidence will be acquired before any analysis traces are in the system.

Summary

In this introductory chapter, we discussed some definitions that are related to digital forensic science, its goals, and its analysis approaches.

In the next chapter, the live and postmortem analysis approaches will be explained in details with the tools that are recommended for each approach.

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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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1. The Foundations and Principles of Digital Forensics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. The Foundations and Principles of Digital Forensics
What is digital crime?
Digital forensics
Digital evidence
Digital forensic goals
Analysis approaches
Summary
2. Incident Response and Live Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Incident Response and Live Analysis
Personal skills
Security fundamentals
The hardware for IR and Jump Bag
Remote live response
Summary
3. Volatile Data Collection Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Volatile Data Collection
Memory acquisition
Network-based data collection
Summary
4. Nonvolatile Data Acquisition Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Nonvolatile Data Acquisition
Forensic image
Incident Response CDs
Live imaging of a hard drive
Linux for the imaging of a hard drive
Virtualization in data acquisition
Evidence integrity (the hash function)
Disk wiping in Linux
Summary
5. Timeline Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Timeline
Timeline introduction
The Sleuth Kit
Super timeline – Plaso
Plaso architecture
Plaso in practice
Summary
6. Filesystem Analysis and Data Recovery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Filesystem Analysis and Data Recovery
Hard drive structure
The FAT filesystem
The NTFS filesystem
The Sleuth Kit (TSK)
Autopsy
Foremost
Summary
7. Registry Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Registry Analysis
The registry structure
Backing up the registry files
Extracting registry hives
Parsing registry files
Auto-run keys
Registry analysis
Summary
8. Event Log Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Event Log Analysis
Event Logs - an introduction
Event Logs system
Extracting Event Logs
Summary
9. Windows Files Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Windows Files
Windows prefetch files
Windows tasks
Windows Thumbs DB
Windows RecycleBin
Windows shortcut files
Summary
10. Browser and E-mail Investigation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Browser and E-mail Investigation
Browser investigation
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Firefox
Other browsers
E-mail investigation
Summary
11. Memory Forensics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Memory Forensics
Memory structure
Memory acquisition
The sources of memory dump
Processes in memory
Network connections in memory
The DLL injection
API hooking
Memory analysis
Summary
12. Network Forensics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Network Forensics
Network data collection
Exploring logs
Using tcpdump
Using tshark
Using WireShark
Knowing Bro
Summary
appA. Building a Forensic Analysis Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
appA. Building a Forensic Analysis Environment
Factors that need to be considered
appB. Case Study Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Introduction
Scenario
Acquisition
Live analysis
Prefetch files
Browser analysis
Postmortem analysis
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  • If you live in Mexico, and the declared value of your ordered items is over $ 50, for you to receive a package, you will have to pay additional import tax of 19% which will be $ 9.50 to the courier service.
  • Whereas if you live in Turkey, and the declared value of your ordered items is over € 22, for you to receive a package, you will have to pay additional import tax of 18% which will be € 3.96 to the courier service.
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Cancellation Policy for Published Printed Books:

You can cancel any order within 1 hour of placing the order. Simply contact customercare@packt.com with your order details or payment transaction id. If your order has already started the shipment process, we will do our best to stop it. However, if it is already on the way to you then when you receive it, you can contact us at customercare@packt.com using the returns and refund process.

Please understand that Packt Publishing cannot provide refunds or cancel any order except for the cases described in our Return Policy (i.e. Packt Publishing agrees to replace your printed book because it arrives damaged or material defect in book), Packt Publishing will not accept returns.

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Return Policy:

We want you to be happy with your purchase from Packtpub.com. We will not hassle you with returning print books to us. If the print book you receive from us is incorrect, damaged, doesn't work or is unacceptably late, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com with the order number and issue details as explained below:

  1. If you ordered (eBook, Video or Print Book) incorrectly or accidentally, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com within one hour of placing the order and we will replace/refund you the item cost.
  2. Sadly, if your eBook or Video file is faulty or a fault occurs during the eBook or Video being made available to you, i.e. during download then you should contact Customer Relations Team within 14 days of purchase on customercare@packt.com who will be able to resolve this issue for you.
  3. You will have a choice of replacement or refund of the problem items.(damaged, defective or incorrect)
  4. Once Customer Care Team confirms that you will be refunded, you should receive the refund within 10 to 12 working days.
  5. If you are only requesting a refund of one book from a multiple order, then we will refund you the appropriate single item.
  6. Where the items were shipped under a free shipping offer, there will be no shipping costs to refund.

On the off chance your printed book arrives damaged, with book material defect, contact our Customer Relation Team on customercare@packt.com within 14 days of receipt of the book with appropriate evidence of damage and we will work with you to secure a replacement copy, if necessary. Please note that each printed book you order from us is individually made by Packt's professional book-printing partner which is on a print-on-demand basis.

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Currently, no tax is charged on the purchase of any print book (subject to change based on the laws and regulations). A localized VAT fee is charged only to our European and UK customers on eBooks, Video and subscriptions that they buy. GST is charged to Indian customers for eBooks and video purchases.

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You can pay with the following card types:

  1. Visa Debit
  2. Visa Credit
  3. MasterCard
  4. PayPal
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Shipping Details

USA:

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Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the US within 10-15 business days

Premium: Trackable Delivery to most addresses in the US within 3-8 business days

UK:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
Shipments are not trackable

Premium: Trackable delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 3-4 business days!
Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

Economy: Can deliver to P. O. Boxes and private residences.
Trackable service with delivery to addresses in Australia only.
Delivery time ranges from 7-9 business days for VIC and 8-10 business days for Interstate metro
Delivery time is up to 15 business days for remote areas of WA, NT & QLD.

Premium: Delivery to addresses in Australia only
Trackable delivery to most P. O. Boxes and private residences in Australia within 4-5 days based on the distance to a destination following dispatch.

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Disclaimer:
All orders received before 5 PM U.K time would start printing from the next business day. So the estimated delivery times start from the next day as well. Orders received after 5 PM U.K time (in our internal systems) on a business day or anytime on the weekend will begin printing the second to next business day. For example, an order placed at 11 AM today will begin printing tomorrow, whereas an order placed at 9 PM tonight will begin printing the day after tomorrow.


Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. American Samoa
  3. Belarus
  4. Brunei Darussalam
  5. Central African Republic
  6. The Democratic Republic of Congo
  7. Eritrea
  8. Guinea-bissau
  9. Iran
  10. Lebanon
  11. Libiya Arab Jamahriya
  12. Somalia
  13. Sudan
  14. Russian Federation
  15. Syrian Arab Republic
  16. Ukraine
  17. Venezuela