Practical Windows Forensics: Leverage the power of digital forensics for Windows systems - Softcover

Mansour, Ayman Shaaban A; Sapronov, Konstantin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783554096 ISBN 13: 9781783554096

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Leverage the power of digital forensics for Windows systems

About This Book

• Build your own lab environment to analyze forensic data and practice techniques.
• This book offers meticulous coverage with an example-driven approach and helps you build the key skills of performing forensics on Windows-based systems using digital artifacts.
• It uses specific open source and Linux-based tools so you can become proficient at analyzing forensic data and upgrade your existing knowledge.

Who This Book Is For

This book targets forensic analysts and professionals who would like to develop skills in digital forensic analysis for the Windows platform. You will acquire proficiency, knowledge, and core skills to undertake forensic analysis of digital data.

Prior experience of information security and forensic analysis would be helpful. You will gain knowledge and an understanding of performing forensic analysis with tools especially built for the Windows platform.

What You Will Learn

• Perform live analysis on victim or suspect Windows systems locally or remotely
• Understand the different natures and acquisition techniques of volatile and non-volatile data.
• Create a timeline of all the system actions to restore the history of an incident.
• Recover and analyze data from FAT and NTFS file systems.
• Make use of various tools to perform registry analysis.
• Track a system user's browser and e-mail activities to prove or refute some hypotheses.
• Get to know how to dump and analyze computer memory.

In Detail

Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process.

We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.

Style and approach

This is a step-by-step guide that delivers knowledge about different Windows artifacts. Each topic is explained sequentially, including artifact analysis using different tools and techniques. These techniques make use of the evidence extracted from infected machines, and are accompanied by real-life examples.

About this title

About the Author

Ayman Shaaban (@aymanshaaban) is a digital forensics specialist with about 8 years of experience in the field. He worked in the Egyptian National CERT as a digital forensics engineer for almost 5 years before joining Kaspersky Lab as a security researcher. Throughout the course of his career, Ayman has provided analysis for cases with national and international scope, and delivered training on digital forensics for different high profile entities. He is a certified GSEC, GCIH, GCFA, and CFCE. He also has a BSc in Communication and Electronics, and is currently working on his Master's degree in Information Security. You can find him on LinkedIn. Konstantin Sapronov joined Kaspersky Lab in 2000. He has been the Deputy Head of the Global Emergency Response Team since August 2011. He previously worked as a group manager with Virus Lab China, and has been responsible for establishing and developing the Virus Lab at Kaspersky Lab's office in China. Before this, Konstantin worked as a virus analyst and was the head of the Non-Intel Platform Group in the Virus Lab at Kaspersky Lab's HQ (Moscow), where he specialized in reverse engineering and in the analysis of malware, exploits, and vulnerabilities. He has authored several analytical articles on malware for UNIX and other information security topics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1783554096
• ISBN 13: 9781783554096
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 322