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Windows Registry Forensics
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Windows Registry Forensics

by Harlan Carvey
January 2011
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
6h 10m
English
Syngress
Content preview from Windows Registry Forensics
4. Case Studies
Tracking User Activity
Information in This Chapter
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 ...
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