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Tag Archives: artefact locations
HTTP Cookies – Part 3 – Chrome Cookies
Chrome Location Windows 7 onwards: %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default Unlike Internet Explorer (and like Firefox) Chrome does not use individual text files, but instead uses a SQLite database. In order to view this you will need a SQLite browser (easy to get … Continue reading
Posted in Browser Forensics, Chrome, Cookies
Tagged artefact locations, basics, browser forensics, chrome, hats off security, Windows 10, windows 7, windows 8.1, Windows8
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HTTP Cookies – Part 2 – Firefox
Firefox Location Windows 7 and onwards %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile.name>\cookies.sqlite Unlike Internet Explorer (and like Chrome) Firefox does not use individual text files for storing cookies, instead it uses a SQLite database. In order to view this you will need a SQLite browser … Continue reading
Posted in Browser Forensics, Cookies, Firefox
Tagged artefact locations, browser forensics, cookies, firefox, hats off security, Windows 10, windows 7, windows 8.1, Windows8
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HTTP Cookies – Part 1 – Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge
Finding Internet Explorer/Edge Cookies (Windows 7-10… possibly Vista, but who uses Vista?!) Microsoft introduced a cool new way of finding your cookies. From the Run prompt or any Explorer window type “shell:cookies” and you will be taken to the Cookies … Continue reading
Removing Cookies
Do you know how many cookies are tracking you? Have you tried to clear the cookies only to find some things not quite gone? Well I have a product for you!… just kidding, it sounded like an advert, so I … Continue reading
Posted in Browser Forensics, Cookies
Tagged artefact locations, browser forensics, cookies, hats off security
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USB Forensic “Roadmap”
As I have been researching and investigating USB Forensics I put together a “Roadmap” for my own personal reference. I made it using Maltego Case File and refer to it every now and then when I am attempting to remember … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, Research, USB Forensics, Windows Forensics
Tagged artefact locations, hats off security, USB, windows 7, Windows Registry Forensics, Windows8
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Windows XP Restore Points
I know XP is going the way of the Dodo, which is why I wanted to write this post. As blogs and posts update and keep up with the latest versions of Windows I find it harder and harder to … Continue reading
Mounted Devices Key
Here is a screen capture of a Mounted Devices key. As you can see it can appear quite daunting. In a previous blog post I covered how a USB Mass Storage devices would simply convert ASCII to Hex and use … Continue reading
Research: Decoding LanmanServer\Shares
For my first fully independent research topic I chose to look at the registry key created when an object is shared. This all started with a job we were investigating recently where the indicators we were given did not turn … Continue reading
Link Files
Link (lnk) files are a valuable source of information in a forensic investigation and should not be casually overlooked. What are Link files? Link files are created by the system when a file is opened, even if that file is … Continue reading
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Tagged artefact locations, basics, hats off security, link files, windows 7, Windows8
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Jump Lists
What is a Jump List? A Jump List looks something like: From left to right we have; Windows Media Player Start Menu, Wordpad Internet Explorer Jump Lists were introduced in Windows 7 to allow frequently used files/tasks/webpages to be selected … Continue reading
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