Andrea Fortuna
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NTFS filesystem is a gold mine for forensic analysis on Microsoft Windows systems.

iLEAPP is a good iOS forensic tool developed by Alexis Brignoni. It’s composed by a set of python script previously developed by Alexis, collected in a single, useful, tool.

On iOS devices, due the well-known os restrictions, logical acquisition is the most common type of data extraction during digital forensic investigations. There are a lot of commercial forensic tools able to perform this step, but this type of acquisition can be also perfomed using an open source tool.

During a forensic analysis, but also during other simple tasks (like helping a friend to recover deleted files), is useful to have a trusted tool to perform file-carving and data recovery.

Most of forensic acquisition activities on an Android device can be accomplished using the ADB (Android Debug Bridge) tool.
However, a lot of commands are required: luckily, the forensic expert Mattia Epifani created a bash script that automatize a lot of operations needed to collect device informations.

An interesting article and video lesson by security reserarcher Didier Stevens.

Currently, there are a lot of good forensics commercial tools, can be used to perform a whole dfir workflow. However, several analyst anche companies cannot afford the purchase of those (awesome) tools.

During forensic anaysis, Windows registry data can be useful to discover malicious activity and to determine if and what data may have been stolen from a network.

The malware analyst Karsten Hahn recently published a very interesting video about the analysis of a sample of the well-known malware Ursnif.

Recently I’ve already written about Cobalt Strike detection during forensics analysis. However, some followers asked my if it was possibile to perform this activities using Volatility, in order to integrate them in existing analysis workflows.