EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition
by Steve Bunting
Summary
In this chapter, I covered file signature analysis and hash analysis. File signature analysis is a tool or process used within EnCase to identify a file by its header information, if it exists, rather than by the default method, which is file extension. File header and extension information is stored in a database in the file FileTypes.ini. File signature information can be added, deleted, or modified in the File Types view, which is a global view.
Until a file signature analysis is run, which occurs by default when the EnCase Evidence Processor runs, EnCase relies on a file’s extension to determine its file type, which will in turn determine the viewer used to display the data. Once a file signature analysis is run, EnCase will view ...
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