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Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238678

Length 532 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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Forensics

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Gerard Johansen

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Incident Response FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Managing Cyber Incidents

4. Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Digital Forensics

5. Chapter 4: Investigation Methodology

6. Part 2: Evidence Acquisition

7. Chapter 5: Collecting Network Evidence

8. Chapter 6: Acquiring Host-Based Evidence

9. Chapter 7: Remote Evidence Collection

10. Chapter 8: Forensic Imaging

11. Part 3: Evidence Analysis

12. Chapter 9: Analyzing Network Evidence

13. Chapter 10: Analyzing System Memory

14. Chapter 11: Analyzing System Storage

15. Chapter 12: Analyzing Log Files

16. Chapter 13: Writing the Incident Report

17. Part 4: Ransomware Incident Response

18. Chapter 14: Ransomware Preparation and Response

19. Chapter 15: Ransomware Investigations

20. Part 5: Threat Intelligence and Hunting

21. Chapter 16: Malware Analysis for Incident Response

22. Chapter 17: Leveraging Threat Intelligence

23. Chapter 18: Threat Hunting

24. Assessments

25. Index

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26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix

Master File Table analysis

Another technique that can be leveraged for timeline analysis is utilizing external tools to analyze the MFT. Autopsy allows the analyst to export the MFT for analysis using third-party tools. In this case, we will use MFT Explorer, one of several tools developed by Eric Zimmerman.

Eric Zimmerman's tools

Eric Zimmerman is a former FBI agent, SANS course developer, and digital forensics expert. He has created a suite of tools for carving and analyzing data available at https://ericzimmerman.github.io/#!index.md. Additionally, the SANS Institute has created a cheat sheet for the tools available at https://www.sans.org/posters/eric-zimmerman-tools-cheat-sheet/.

In this instance, we will look at processing the MFT from the image that was examined with Autopsy. The MFT can be found within the root directory of the filesystem. Find the $MFT file, right-click it, select Extract Files, and then save the file to an evidence drive. As good practice, change...

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