Daily Blog #545: Forensic Lunch Test Kitchen 11/21/18 - Discussion on Command Line Execution, Local Security Policy and More

Discussion on Command Line Execution, Local Security Policy and More  by David Cowen - Hacking Exposed Computer Forensics Blog



Hello Reader,
         Tonight we continued looking into Amcache and Shimcache in their parts of the application compatibility cache system. Here is what we learned:

  • Command line executions, without GUIs, are not immediately tracked in Amcache but are in Shimcache after two days 
  • Command line executions, with GUIs, are tracked in Amcache after a shutdown, need to check the transaction logs next time to see if we can get them without reboot/shutdown
  • Command line programs executed from the GUI are tracked in the Amcache
  • The process creation events I turned in the local security policy are not catching user processes, need to check on why
  • Amcache does contain command line programs I never executed, but the dates are 3 days after the extraction

So we need to let the system keep running and see if some automatic sweep will cause the other command line executables to be tracked. 

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