Monthly Archives: September 2021

Windows Artifacts for Forensics Investigation

Generic Windows Artifacts Windows 10 Notifications In the path \Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications you can find the database appdb.dat (before Windows anniversary) or wpndatabase.db (after Windows Anniversary). Inside this SQLite database you can find the Notification table with all the notifications (in xml format) that may contain interesting data. Timeline Timeline is a …

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Windows Processes Investigation

smss.exe It’s called Session Manager. Session 0 starts csrss.exe and wininit.exe (OS services) while Session 1 starts csrss.exe and winlogon.exe (User session). However, you should see only one process of that binary without children in the processes tree. Also, more sessions apart from 0 and 1 may mean that RDP …

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Active Directory Penetration Mind Map

click to see Full-Size Image Scan Network cme smb # enumerate smb hosts nmap -sP -p # ping scan nmap -PN -sV –top-ports 50 –open # quick scan nmap -PN –script smb-vuln* -p139,445 # search smb vuln nmap -PN -sC -sV # classic scan nmap -PN -sC -sV -p- # …

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Check if your Active Directory passwords are compromised in a data breach

To compare Active Directory accounts against breached passwords you need access to your Active Directory with a specific privileged account, a password list with NTLM hashes and some PowerShell commands. But why should you do this? Password hashes of Domain accounts can be dumped locally from SAM, memory, remotely and …

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