File System Forensic Analysis by Brian Carrier

File System Forensic Analysis



File System Forensic Analysis book download




File System Forensic Analysis Brian Carrier ebook
ISBN: 0321268172, 9780321268174
Format: chm
Page: 600
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional


Posted by Eugenia Loli on Mon 16th May 2005 04:18 UTC. Incident Responders and Digital Forensic Investigators must master a variety of operating systems, investigative techniques, incident response tactics, and even legal issues in order to combat challenging intrusion cases across the enterprise. File System Forensic Analysis: PC-based Partitions. This chapter breaks down a file's content and metadata. Modern filesystems are highly optimized database systems that are a core function of modern operating systems. We published a Technical-Report with id CS-2011-06 (ISSN 2191-5008) named Reverse Engineering of the Android File System (YAFFS2) today. I am not going to delve into the depths of the format of NTFS because it has already been explained in numerous books like File System Forensics by Brain Carrier. With modules for file system analysis, e-mail, keyword search, registry, and bookmarking, Forensic Explorer has the essentials. File system tunneling is a somewhat obscure feature of Windows that some examiners may not be familiar with. Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools: Using Open Source Platform Tools for Performing Computer Forensics on Target Systems: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, 4) Chapter 8 on File Analysis is the longest chapter (41 pages in length), covering analysis of image files, audio and video files, archive files, and documents. They use rootkits, file wiping, timestamp adjustments, privacy cleaners, and complex malware to hide in plain sight and avoid detection by standard host-based security measures. Most digital evidence is stored within the computer's file system, but understanding how file systems work is one of the most technically challenging concepts for a digital investigator because there exists little documentation. Attackers will use anti-forensic techniques to hide their tracks. Reading Brian Carrier's book "File System Forensic Analysis" [1] is essential for understanding the structures of the NTFS filesystem and this resource was heavily used in the making of this plugin.