(Please let me know if you do, as I currently just use a text file as a template for files of interest for varying investigation types) Creating Content Image by User SIDĪs previously mentioned, your scope may be limited due to shared computer use and while this may not be of too much importance for law enforcement, files belonging to a user may be marked as privileged by civil court orders. *As far as I’m aware, there is not an option to save your custom content as a template. Wild Card Filters: Users|*|NTUSER.dat Users|*|Documents|*.doc Users|*|Downloads|Evidence ?.pdf Windows|Prefetch|*ġ: Start by browsing to your custom content item.Ģ: Then right-click and select add to “Custom Content Image”.ģ: You can manually add custom content by selecting “New” using the wildcard option or “Edit” existing custom content.
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Wild Card Syntax: ? = Replaces any single character in the file name and extension * = Replaces any series of characters in a file name and extension | = Separates directories and files
* Noting that files by name may not meet all matching files in the way that hashing will. This is a great feature if you are looking for a file by name*, extension or batch of files with similar names. Custom Content Image by File TypeįTK Imager allows the use of Wild Cards to filter and find specific files stored on the file system.
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Here are some simple ways around some of these problems using FTK Imager, presuming you are working with Windows computers or existing images. You are capturing evidence from a shared computer and are only allowed to extract files specific to a user account due to legal privilege.You might only have legal permission to or have been asked to only extract specific files types.You have strict instructions on what to acquire. In the law enforcement world, there are any other numbers of reasons why you may be tight on time.You could have been given a computer with no PSU and need to acquire evidence from it before the battery dies (as I once had to do in the back of a $380 taxi journey).This may not be lawfully permitted in your country. This could involve accessing a users laptop remotely while it is only attached to the network for a short time.Perhaps time to capture evidence is limited. Now, I’m not saying FTK Imager is about to answer either of those questions for you but there are some handy functions which I had never used until recently.Ĭustom content images in FTK Imager allow the analyst to add an evidence item and build a logical image (AD1… sorry XWF users) containing only files of their choosing. Whether it’s management in Law Enforcement looking for the silver bullet ‘Find Evidence’ button in Axiom (no digs at Magnet but please put that back in :)) or the large corporations incident responder needing to analyse hundreds of endpoints for one specific artefact.
This is mainly due to the issue that most units have backlogs, lack of time and urgency to produce results.
Quick!Īs we all know, things have moved on quite rapidly from grabbing an image of a dead box and leaving it processing in your tool of choice over the weekend. Modern day forensics and IR require answers. While working in law enforcement I was always obsessed with ensuring I had captured the ‘golden forensic image’ which for obvious reasons, is still ideal and gives you all that unallocated spacey goodness. FTK Imager is renowned the world over as the go-to forensic imaging tool.