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Windows Forensics Cookbook

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):

de Courcier

Oleg Skulkin

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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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 parsing with PECmd

If you have found some suspicious prefetch files and want to perform in-depth analysis, there is another tool by Eric Zimmerman that can help you - PECmd. This is a free and fast command-line tool capable of parsing Windows Prefetch files, both in old and new formats. In this recipe, we will show you how to extract valuable data from prefetches with the help of this tool.

Getting ready

Go to the PECmd download page, get the archive with the tool - at the time of writing, the most recent version is 0.9.0.0 - and unpack it. Also, you will need a prefetch file to work with, or a folder with such a file. As you already know, it can be exported from a forensic image with a tool of your choice. As soon as you get it, open the Windows Command Prompt, and you are ready to go!

How to do it...

The steps for prefetch file parsing with PECmd are as follows:

Using the Windows Command Prompt, change the directory to the one where you unpacked the archive, and run the following...

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Authors (2)

de Courcier

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

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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