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Windows Malware Forensics
A practical workshop focusing on the forensic investigation of Windows-based operating systems.
40 Hours
Blue Team
40 Hours
Blue Team
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Windows-based operating systems are proving grounds for forensic evidence. They generate vast amounts of information and by-products indicate the actions and events of each system. Every file run in the system produces an abundance of listings and documentation in various operating system logs. Whether a user is browsing the web, filling out a form, opening documents, or deleting files; the activity and the exact location of the user interface window are documented thanks to the operating system’s built-in automated mechanisms.

The course covers the following topics:

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Digital forensics in rapid-changing space
  • Post-mortem (forensics) vs. real time (incident response)
  • What is host forensics?
  • The order of volatility and evidence types
  • The methodology of running an investigation
  • Open source: Yes we can!
  • Building your own examination platform
Disk and filesystem analysis
  • Media analysis concepts
  • The Sleuth Toolkit
  • Partitioning and disk layouts
  • Special containers
  • Hashing
  • File carving
  • Forensic RAW Imaging with dd
  • Converting virtual storage to RAW images
Generating filesystem timelines
  • Filesystem MACB timestamps
  • Generating body files from images and mounted media
  • Timeline generation and analysis with fls and autopsy
  • Indexing modifications, access, and creation with Linux shell
  • Timeline generation and analysis
Windows system artifacts
  • Windows file systems (FAT32, NTFS)
  • Registry forensics
  • Event logs
  • Prefetch files
  • Shortcut files
  • Windows executables
Internet-related artifacts
  • Browser artifacts (history, stored passwords, and forms, auto complete)
  • Mail client artifacts
  • File-sharing artifacts
  • Messaging and VoIP client artifacts
  • IDE and other DevTools
Super timeline all the things
  • Super timelines: What and why
  • Getting started with Plaso
  • Creating timelines
  • Using collection filters
  • Event filters
  • Analysis plugins
  • Analyzing Plaso output with Elasticsearch and Kibana
Memory forensics
  • Memory acquisition
  • Memory dump formats
  • sys, swap files and Windows crush dumps
  • Virtual machine memory files
  • The Volatility Framework
  • Processes, handles, and tokens
  • File objects in memory
  • Network artifacts in memory
  • Command history
Hunting windows malware in memory
  • PE files in memory
  • Packing and compression
  • Code injections
  • Event logs in memory
  • MFT extraction and filesystem timeline from memory
  • Extracting files
  • Windows Registry analysis in memory (UserAssist, ShimCache, ShellBags)
  • Dumping password hashes, LSA secrets
Digging deeper (Windows memory)
  • Hidden network connections
  • Raw sockets and sniffers
  • Internet History
  • DNS and ARP cache recovery
  • Investigating service activity
  • Generating “Super” timelines and Registry Timestamping
  • (Re)constructing attack flows
  • Volatility strings
The Windows forensic challenge
  • Enterprise-scale multi-machine Windows Breach CTF (1 Day)
  • Multi-step “targeted” attack
  • Analysis reports
  • Challenge walkthrough and investigative conclusions
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COURSE INFO

Target audience

    • Analysts
    • Security researchers
    • Forensics researchers
    • IT specialists
    • Incident response teams

Prerequisites

    • User-level knowledge of Windows operating systems
    • Familiarity with TCP/IP protocols
    • Familiarity with cyberwarfare methods
    • Prior experience working with Linux and bash is advantageous

Skills Gained

    • Perform forensic analysis on disk and file system
    • Perform forensic analysis on Windows and Linux OS
    • Perform a complete and well managed forensic investigation
    • Investigate web-based artifacts
    • Finding evidence using memory forensics

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