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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

Prefetch file recovery with Windows Prefetch Carver

If you want to try to carve Windows Prefetch files from arbitrary binary data, there is a tool for you - Windows Prefetch Carver by Adam Witt. It can be used for prefetch carving from a drive's unallocated space or a memory image, for example. In this recipe we will show you how to use it.

Getting ready

Go to the Windows Prefetch Carver GitHub page (presented in the See Also section), and download the archive using the green Clone or Download button. Unpack the archive, start the Windows Command Prompt, and change the directory to the folder you unpacked it into. You are ready to go!

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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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