Windows Registry Forensics

4. Case Studies

Tracking User Activity

Information in This Chapter

•Tracking User Activity

•Scenarios

This chapter discusses a great deal of the data that can be extracted from Registry hives associated with a User Profile, in order to demonstrate or illustrate indicators of patterns of activity. This information can be used by analysts to demonstrate when the user was logged into the system and to locate indicators of malware infections, intrusions, and a number of other activities.

Keywords

Registry, NTUSER.dat, USRCLASS.dat, UserAssist, MuiCache, virtualization, RecentDocs, WordWheelQuery, user

Introduction

When first I sat down to write this book, it occurred to me that this chapter … one about tracking user activity … might be the most ...