The forensics tag has no wiki summary.
24
votes
17answers
2k views
How can I physically destroy data from a failed HDD?
I have a broken HDD that contains sensitive data. Since no software can access the disk, I can't wipe it using any of the tools generally suggested.
Breaking the disk physically into very small ...
13
votes
1answer
2k views
Where is the serial number of the DVD/CD writer stored on the CD?
I was reading the Wikileaks FAQ (archived here), it says:
Many CD and DVD writers will include
the serial number of the DVD or CD
writer onto the CD/DVDs they write. If
the post is ...
8
votes
2answers
357 views
How to find out when a disc (DVD) has been written/burned?
Is there a way/tool to determine the date and time when a disc has been written/burned with high certainty? This is about data forensics and should be a solid proof. I already tried IsoBuster, but it ...
8
votes
3answers
1k views
Police found & returned my stolen laptop reformatted by thief. Can installation logs help locate the thief?
Three weeks ago my laptop was stolen from campus. I immediately reported it to police and on manufacturer's website. A couple of days ago a man called the manufacturer and said he bought a second-hand ...
6
votes
2answers
1k views
Is it possible to confirm CD was burned on a particular machine?
Is it possible to determine whether a CD was burned by a particular CD/DVD burner? Is there any identifier of that burner that is always written to any disc it burns?
This is something I'd like to ...
5
votes
1answer
198 views
How to identify which editor was used to make/edit an image?
I saw this the other day
This behavior is not uniform.The same does not happen if I use MS Paint or any other editor though.
Question:
Are there methods to discover which editor was used to ...
5
votes
1answer
585 views
Image forensics software
I'm not really sure if this question belongs here, however I didn't find it fitting well into photography nor stackapps.
I'm looking for a software I've seen some long time ago on Discovery channel. ...
3
votes
0answers
249 views
Data Recovery using testDisk failing
Continuation of this question:
I am trying to recover an accidentally formatted partition using TestDisk.
After selecting the partition and selecting Undeleted, it says, No deleted file found.
...
2
votes
2answers
133 views
Windows Application Analyzer
I'm searching for a programm that is Win7(32 and 64bit) compatible and includes as much usefull features for application forensic as possible, including:
File System changes
Registry changes
...
2
votes
5answers
323 views
Looking for a way to image an entire harddrive to an external usb drive
I have a 100GB NTFS-formatted drive, and a 250GB external USb disk.
I am thinking of using a live disk, as is described here, except that I will skip the gzip part.
...
2
votes
0answers
136 views
How can I know which blocks/sectors were last written to on an NTFS volume?
Is there a tool that would enable me to identify which blocks of data were last (most recently) written to an NTFS volume?
Perhaps the NTFS volume's "$Journal" file might have information that can be ...
1
vote
2answers
96 views
How to find the extension of a file once it has been removed or changed? [duplicate]
Say you are given a file whose extension has been removed or changed (file.tar.gz --> file.blah). This file is decompressed and its contents are used by an application. But you don't have access to ...
1
vote
2answers
1k views
Is there any full disk encryption out there that does not have any forensic traces? Any effective method?
I've been testing quite a number of full disk encryptions but still new in computer forensic stuffs. I'm fully aware of decoy/hidden OS and cold boot attack though.
Even Truecrypt and Bestcrypt ...
1
vote
2answers
320 views
Forensics - scan guest OS (WinXP) and files from host OS (Win7 64) using VMWare Player or VirtualBox
I have a Windows XP laptop that was infected with a virus; the virus was removed but network connectivity was jacked up. I boot to Ubuntu from a USB key to move files between the system and the ...
1
vote
2answers
205 views
What is the best way to undelete some photos on Linux? Is there any way to use foremost to only recover files that only contain some text?
I accidentaly deleted some digital photos I had recently taken, and I wanted to undelete them. I found out about Foremost, and it allows me to recover jpg files, but will fo that with all of the ...
1
vote
1answer
148 views
Recovering Images from Formatted HFS+ Hard Drive
Is it possible to recover JPEG images using a low level scan of a hard drive? The hard drive we originally formatted in HFS+ and has since been reformatted. OS X has also been reinstalled.
1
vote
2answers
681 views
hard drive forensics tool for linux
I am looking for an application I used in 2001.
It was a curses application that displayed devices or files in hexadecimal format, and allowed searching through them and other functionality.
I can't ...
1
vote
1answer
50 views
Information flow in Linux - how to tell who is currently active and typing?
I'm currently playing a mafia/werewolves game with my cyber-security class.
The basic idea is:
on one machine, the moderator starts a server program
all the players ssh into the machine and launch ...
0
votes
1answer
38 views
In Windows, when does a shutdown protect the data?
I have a Windows 7 computer and I am doing some tests: instead of shutting down it properly through the menu shutdown command I switch off the power supply. At the next boot Windows shows the message:
...
0
votes
2answers
123 views
How do I find the sectors that populate a hard drive track?
How do I determine the sectors that are occupying a drive track?
I am interested in locating "the last 512 bytes of the first logical drive track" in order to determine if a drive is encrypted with ...
0
votes
2answers
122 views
Where can I find a complete list of all the logs in the system?
I'd like to learn more about forensic analysis, and I'm trying to do the challenges from Project Honeynet. I need to check the logfiles and find the IP's that connected remotely to the computer. I ...
0
votes
2answers
75 views
Trying to recover a deleted .bash_history file
It's for an assignment to practice a bit of forensics. We're given VirtualBox images and told to figure out if a certain user messed up the ssh config.
I mounted the image as read-only, and found ...
0
votes
1answer
71 views
How to find if a user has connected another HD via SATA or IDE?
I need to find a registry place that can give me the necessary information to know if someone has connected another (in addition to the current one) HD (SATA or IDE) to the computer.
Is there a ...
0
votes
0answers
28 views
Why can't my forensics live cd mount windows share
I am having a rather aggravating issue. I want to output Dcfldd to a Windows share on another machine but I cannot mount the share, I have tried on Backtrack and Sans SIFT both in forensics mode and ...
0
votes
1answer
141 views
Recovering text from an indexed and now-corrupted RTF file, using Windows.edb
My laptop with SSD drive had a sudden power loss, and upon booting windows up again, an RTF file seems to have been corrupted as a result (despite the file being saved to disk just fine - the file WAS ...
-2
votes
2answers
606 views
Getting data off a flaky WD external drive
I have a Western Digital 1TB MyBook with some photos that I would like to offload and access. A PC seems to see the drive; a Mac doesn't see it over Firewire or USB.
Between Windows 7, Windows XP, ...
-2
votes
2answers
120 views
Is there a Windows utility to delete contents of RAM left by an application? [closed]
Ideally, this utility would know where in physical RAM an application was and completely clear its contents when it's closed. Does anyone know of such a utility?
