Simple to install and with a lot of features

The purpose of PowerForensics is to provide an all inclusive framework for hard drive forensic analysis.

PowerForensics currently supports NTFS and FAT file systems, and work has begun on Extended File System and HFS+ support.

PowerForensics is built on a C# Class Library (Assembly) that provides an public forensic API.

All of this module’s cmdlets are built on this public API and tasks can easily be expanded upon to create new cmdlets.


Features and CmdLets

Boot Sector

  • Get-ForensicMasterBootRecord — gets the MasterBootRecord from the first sector of the hard drive
  • Get-ForensicGuidPartitionTable — gets the GuidPartitionTable from the first sector of the hard drive
  • Get-ForensicBootSector — gets the appropriate boot sector (MBR or GPT) from the specified drive
  • Get-ForensicPartitionTable — gets the partition table for the specified drive

Extended File System 4 (ext4)

  • Get-ForensicSuperblock — returns the ext4 SuperBlock object
  • Get-ForensicBlockGroupDescriptor — returns the Block Group Descriptor Table entries
  • Get-ForensicInode — returns the Inode Table entries

New Technology File System (NTFS)

  • Get-ForensicAttrDef — gets definitions of MFT Attributes (parses $AttrDef)
  • Get-ForensicBitmap — determines if a cluster is marked as in use (parses $Bitmap)
  • Get-ForensicFileRecord — gets Master File Table entries (parses $MFT)
  • Get-ForensicFileRecordIndex — gets a file’s MFT record index number
  • Get-ForensicUsnJrnl — getss Usn Journal Entries (parses $UsnJrnl:$J)
  • Get-ForensicUsnJrnlInformation — getss UsnJrnl Metadata (parses $UsnJrnl:$Max)
  • Get-ForensicVolumeBootRecord — gets the VolumeBootRecord from the first sector of the volume (parses $Boot)
  • Get-ForensicVolumeInformation — gets the $Volume file’s $VOLUME_INFORMATION attribute
  • Get-ForensicVolumeName — gets the $Volume file’s $VOLUME_NAME attribute
  • Get-ForensicFileSlack — gets the specified volume’s slack space
  • Get-ForensicMftSlack — gets the Master File Table (MFT) slack space for the specified volume
  • Get-ForensicUnallocatedSpace — gets the unallocated space on the specified partition/volume (parses $Bitmap)

Windows Artifacts

  • Get-AlternateDataStream — gets the NTFS Alternate Data Streams on the specified volume
  • Get-ForensicEventLog — gets the events in an event log or in all event logs
  • Get-ForensicExplorerTypedPath — gets the file paths that have been typed into the Windows Explorer application
  • Get-ForensicNetworkList — gets a list of networks that the system has previously been connected to
  • Get-ForensicOfficeFileMru — gets a files that have been recently opened in Microsoft Office
  • Get-ForensicOfficeOutlookCatalog — gets a Outlook pst file paths
  • Get-ForensicOfficePlaceMru — gets a directories that have recently been opened in Microsoft Office
  • Get-ForensicOfficeTrustRecord — gets files that have been explicitly trusted within MicrosoftOffice
  • Get-ForensicPrefetch — gets Windows Prefetch artifacts by parsing the file’s binary structure
  • Get-ForensicRunKey — gets the persistence mechanism stored in registry run keys
  • Get-ForensicRunMostRecentlyUsed — gets the commands that were issued by the user to the run dialog
  • Get-ForensicScheduledJob — gets Scheduled Jobs (at jobs) by parsing the file’s binary structures
  • Get-ForensicShellLink — gets ShellLink (.lnk) artifacts by parsing the file’s binary structure
  • Get-ForensicSid — gets the machine Security Identifier from the SAM hive
  • Get-ForensicTimezone — gets the system’s timezone based on the registry setting
  • Get-ForensicTypedUrl — gets the Universal Resource Locators (URL) that have been typed into Internet Explorer
  • Get-ForensicUserAssist — gets the UserAssist entries from the specified volume
  • Get-ForensicWindowsSearchHistory — gets the terms that have been searched for using the Windows Search feature

Application Compatibility Cache

  • Get-ForensicAmcache — gets previously run commands from the Amcache.hve registry hive
  • Get-ForensicRecentFileCache — gets previously run commands from the RecentFileCache.bcf file
  • Get-ForensicShimcache — gets previously run commands from the AppCompatCache (AppCompatibility on XP) registry key

Windows Registry

  • Get-ForensicRegistryKey — gets the keys of the specified registry hive
  • Get-ForensicRegistryValue — gets the values of the specified registry key

Forensic Timeline

  • ConvertTo-ForensicTimeline — converts an object to a ForensicTimeline object
  • Get-ForensicTimeline — creates a forensic timeline

Utilities

  • Copy-ForensicFile — creates a copy of a file from its raw bytes on disk
  • Get-ForensicChildItem — returns a directory’s contents by parsing the MFT structures
  • Get-ForensicContent — gets the content of a file from its raw bytes on disk
  • Invoke-ForensicDD — provides a bit for bit copy of a specified device

Installation

  1. Download correct release from Github ( PowerForensicsv2 is the PowerShell v2 compliant version of PowerForensics).
  2. Unzip the module into a directory in the PSModulePath (like C:Program FilesWindowsPowerShellModules) and import with Import-Module Powerforensics
    For more information about PSModulePath check out this article.