Memory analysis on Windows 10 is pretty different from previous Windows versions: a new feature, called Memory Compression, make it necessary a forensic tool able to read compressed memory pages.
Continue…A couple of very brief tip, useful during a forensic acquisition.
Continue…I just recently to perform a forensic analysis on a compromised Microsoft Azure VM, and I’d like to share a couple of useful tips.
Continue…Microsoft Windows uses a paging file, called pagefile.sys, to store page-size blocks of memory that do not current fit into physical memory.
This file, stored in %SystemDrive%\pagefile.sys is a hidden system file and it can never be read or accessed by a user, including Administrator.
Malware authors have always looked for new techniques to stay invisible.
This includes being invisible on the compromised machine, but it is even more important to hide malicious indicators and behavior during analysis.
PE-sieve is a small tool for investigating inline hooks and other in-memory code patches, developed by hasherezade.
In digital forensics, the term logical extraction is typically used to refer to extractions that do not recover deleted data, or do not include a full bit-by-bit copy of the evidence, analogously to copying and pasting a folder in order to extract data from a system.
So, this process will only copy files that the user can access and see: if any hidden or deleted files are present in the folder being copied, they will not be in the pasted version of the folder.
Every forensic analyst, during his experience, perfects his own workflow for the acquisition of forensic images.
Today I want to propose my own workflow for acquisition of physical disks on Microsoft Windows systems
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