Daily Blog #503: Forensic Lunch Test Kitchen 10/10/18 - Editing Yarp-Timeline without IDE

Editing Yarp-Timeline without IDE by David Cowen - Hacking Exposed Computer Forensics Blog



Hello Reader,
        We had a long night in this session of the test kitchen. Mainly because I was trying to debug making changes to Maxim Suhanov's yarp-timeline script without an IDE to help me find my dumb mistakes. In the end though we were able to find and display all of the transition states within the transaction logs for the TypedPaths key and we showed an updated build of Registry Explorer that will now show deleted values!

Here is what we learned:

  • Python's error messages leave a lot to be desired when you don't have an IDE
  • The yarp-timeline script will print which keys are changing but not their values
  • That with some hacky code modifications we can show the values that were changing in each transaction log entry
  • That all of the changes we made were in fact in the registry transaction logs, but we are not sure how long they will stay. Maxim estimates one hour. 
  • That the newest build of Registry Explorer we tested will show deleted values!
You can watch the video here:


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