Category Archives: Windows

No Drive Letter, No USB Evidence? Think Again!

This post is about a question asked: If the user removes the drive letter to hide the presence of a mounted USB drive, could we still locate that drive in the Windows Registry? Short answer is, YES it will still … Continue reading

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Investigating Windows Systems (Book Review)

Hello, We have a saying in Arabic “ان تأتي متآخراً، خيراً من أن لا تأتي أبدا” and in English “Better late, than never!”. This is my review to Harlan Carvey‘s last book titled “Investigating Windows Systems” which I should have … Continue reading

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Windows InstallTime vs InstallDate Registry Values

This is just a quick post about two Registry Values InstallTime and InstallDate which are found under the following key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion The confusion happens when my students ask which one is correct?

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Update: Hidden Prefetch Files Detection using New PECmd

Before diving into this post, I wanted to say, that I have been teaching digital forensics for a long time by now, and in my Operating System Forensics class, I use Eric Zimmerman‘s tools a lot, and when I say … Continue reading

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Creating a Hidden Prefetch File to Bypass Normal Forensic Analysis

While doing more experiments of running EXEs and Malicious EXEs from ADS and Stealthy ADS to continue my previous work “Can We Say Farewell to Hiding Malicious EXEs in Stealth ADS“, and in order to create a forensic image and … Continue reading

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