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Practical Windows Forensics
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Practical Windows Forensics

by Ayman Shaaban, Konstantin Sapronov
June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
322 pages
6h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5. Timeline

In this chapter, we will look at timeline analysis. We will learn a few different approaches to perform a timeline analysis with The Sleuth Kit and Plaso Framework. We will also cover some theoretical issues that are specific to some filesystems and how they work with file time-related attributions. Also, we will demonstrate how we can use Plaso in practice.

In a nutshell, we will cover the following topics:

  • Timeline
  • The Sleuth Kit (TSK)
  • Plaso architecture
  • Plaso in practice

Timeline introduction

One question, which is very prominent in forensics is, "When?"

In other words, time is a very important factor at which analytics is based in the process of forensics. There are many artifacts that we use in an investigation which have temporal ...

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ISBN: 9781783554096