Collaborate Disseminate
A lot of writing and training within DFIR about the Registry refers to it as a database where configuration settings and information is maintained. There’s really a great deal of value in that, and there is also so much more in the Registry than just “… Continue reading Integrating Yara with RegRipper
I thought I’d continue The Next Step series of blog posts with something a little different. This “The Next Step” blog post is about taking a tool such as RegRipper to “the next step”, which is something I started doing in August, 2020. At first, I add… Continue reading The Next Step: Expanding RegRipper
The morning of 1 Aug, I found an article in my feed about a ransomware attack against a municipality; specifically, Montclair Township in New Jersey. Ransomware attacks against municipalities are not new, and they can be pretty devastating to staff and… Continue reading Ransomware Attack Timeline
I uploaded several new updates to Events Ripper plugins in the repo recently…defender.pl – added a check for event ID 2050 records, indicating that Defender uploaded a sample (as opposed to event ID 2051 records, indicating that a file could not be s… Continue reading Events Ripper Updates
My previous post on this topic addressed an apparent dichotomy (admittedly, based on a limited aperture) of thought between vendors and users when it comes to features being added to commercial forensic suites. This was the result of a road I’d st… Continue reading Thoughts on Tool Features, pt II
Not long ago, some exchanges and conversations led me to do something I’d never done before…post a poll on LinkedIn. These conversations had to do with whether or not analysts and practitioners within the industry felt there was adequate value propos… Continue reading Thoughts on Tool Features
Keeping with the theme from my previous blog post of building on what others have done and written about, and of assembling the pieces that are already available to build on a foundation built by others, I found something interesting that seems like a … Continue reading The Next Step: VHD Files and Metadata
A lot of times, we’ll run across something or read something really very profound and valuable, something that opens our eyes and makes us go, “oh, wow”, and impacts us enough that it changes the way we do things. I can say that of a number of blogs po… Continue reading The Next Step
Something I really, really like about tools like RegRipper and Events Ripper is that when I see something in the data during an investigation, I can explore whether it makes sense to pull that out and make it visible to the investigator, and if so, fig… Continue reading Events Ripper Update
In May 2022, Kaspersky published a write-up on a newly-discovered campaign where malware authors wrote shellcode to the Windows Event Log. This was pretty interesting, and just about 4 months later, Tim Fowler published this blog post over at BlackHill… Continue reading Hiding In The Windows Event Log