October 2006 Archives

DFRWS 2007

The Digital Forensic Research Workshop 2007 (DFRWS 2007) will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, US from August 13 to 15, 2007. The workshop will be hosted by CERT/CC. The Call for Papers is now open and closes on April 9, 2007.

Searching in Pool Allocations

Harlan Carvey posted some comments and an article regarding the analysis of pool allocations. One of the remaining taks is to identify "interesting" pool tags. I already wrote about network activity to illustrate the top-down approach. Now here's a tool to aid in bottom-up.

PoolFinder Version 1.0.0 Released

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Today IMF 2006 starts - and I'm excited to announce the public release of a new tool named PoolFinder. PoolFinder accompanies my paper Pool Allocations as an Information Source in Windows Memory Forensics which I will present at IMF.

A Frontend for PTFinder

Not everybody feels at home at a command prompt. Therefore Richard McQuown has created a frontend for PTFinder.

Why is there a new Event Log Format?

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Microsoft pushed out Release Candidate 2 of Vista. Among the host of new features in Vista there is a new file format for event logs. This article is the first in a series which shall help you to accustom yourself to the new format.

Reading the JPEG Quantization Table

In an earlier post I refered to a paper by Hany Farid which analyzes quantization tables found in JPEG file headers. As I'd like to introduce his method in my lab I'm taking a closer look.

PTFinder Added to grml Live CD

I've just learned that PTFinder will be packaged in Debian format and added to the next release of grml Linux live CD shortly. Two other programs will be added, too: ssdeep by Jesse Kornblum and the library and tools for the Advanced Forensics File Format by Simson Garfinkel. Thanks to the grml project!

Fingerprinting using JPEG Quantization Tables

The paper Digital Image Ballistics from JPEG Quantization by Hany Farid describes how digital stills can be attributed to camera makes due to certain differences in the implementation of JPEG compression.

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