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Category Archives: Windows Forensics
Google Analytic Cookies
Google Analytic Cookies are very powerful at tracking what we do and where we do it, by knowing how they work you can use this to your advantage. Assumptions Quite rare I add in assumptions, but this topic could potentially … 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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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
Chrome – Basics
Google Chrome, or just Chrome, is (at the time of writing) the most popular web browser by a fair amount. Twice as popular as Mozilla’s Firefox. Chrome stores its artefacts in SQLite, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and SNSS (Session Saver) … Continue reading
Internet Explorer – Basics
As IE comes bundled with Windows as standard it is often the browser (of choice?) used by a lot of organisations. Larger organisations are also often slower to update IE, in my experience, as they have integrated business critical applications … Continue reading
Mozilla Firefox – Basics
Mozilla Firefox was the most popular back in 2011, and although its popularity has been surpassed by Google Chrome (which I will cover later), it still holds around a quarter of the internet’s browser base. With Windows 7 there were … Continue reading
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USB Forensics Final Part! (aka Pt. 7) Device first/last plugged in
The USB forensics thread can continue until the end of time, or at least the end of my free space on here, with this in mind I am only showing you the basics of USB forensics. I may cover more … Continue reading
USB Forensics Pt. 6 Which user account used the USB device
Having all this information is all well and good, but right now all we can say for sure is that a USB device was used on this machine. Just because someone logged on to that machine doesn’t make them the … Continue reading
USB Forensics Pt.5 Determine the Drive Letter
Finding the last Drive letter used by the USB device is actually quite simple…. or at least it should be! Go to the following Key: SYSTEM\MountedDevices Each drive letter is listed, however in my example on the VM the E: … Continue reading
USB Forensics Pt. 4 Volume Serial Number
On to Part 4 of our ongoing discoveries about USB forensics. A quick recap So far we have managed to get details of two devices which have been connected to our image. We have looked at how to get: Unique … Continue reading
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