Daily Blog #538: Forensic Lunch Test Kitchen 11/14/18 - Windows Forensic Fundamentals, Disk Structures, and More

Windows Forensic Fundamentals, Disk Structures, and More by David Cowen - Hacking Exposed Computer Forensics Blog



Hello Reader,
          Tonight I did a bit of an experimental stream. I loaded the current first chapter draft of the new book and its proposed outline and talked through with those watching what I was planning to do. Thanks to Hooligan Goto for helping me out as I tried to figure out what my outline was missing.

I'm excited to work on this new project, as well as all the other projects I'm working on, because all of them will continue to force me to learn, write and contribute going forward for the long term.

Here is the new outline:

Windows Forensic Fundamentals

Why this data exists
How to form your hypothesis
Building a test bed
Writing python code for DFIR

Disk Structures

MBR
GPT
EFI
Full Disk Encryption
RAIDs

File systems

NTFS
FAT32
EXFAT
REFS

Extended Windows File System Concepts

Shadow Copies
Symlinks, Hardlinks, Reparse Points
TXF, TXR
Single instance storage
Event Tracing Logs
Event Logs

Registry

Registry Fundamentals
Registry Transaction Logs
Recovering deleted data within Registries
Accessing Registries with YARP


User Activity

Registry Data
User Assist
Typed Paths
Cortana Search
RecentApps


File access

ObjectIDs
Lnk Files
Jumplists
Shellbags
Registry data

Device access

Driver install process
Registry data
Driver install logs
GUIDs and meanings
Event Logs
ETLs

Program execution

Application Compatibility Caching
Shimcache
Amcache
Application prefetching
Application Superfetching
User application tracking
ETLs
Event Logs

Network access

RDP
Network Shares
Teamviewer
Event Logs


Network connectivity

Network connections
Network drivers
ETLs
Event Logs

Browser Forensics

Chrome
IE
Firefox


Cloud Hosted

Webmail
  Gmail, outlook,
Cloud Storage
Google Drive, Dropbox


Email Forensics

Outlook
OWA

System Logging

Event Logs
Event Tracing Logs


System Monitoring

Journal Analysis
SRUM


Anti Forensics

Wipers
Cleaners


VM Forensics

Vmware Workstation
VMDKS
VMEMS
Virtuabox

Hyper-V


Here is the video if you want to watch it:


Also Read: Daily Blog #537

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