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JUN
28
2

WinFE Teaser Screenshots

Posted by Brett Shavers
in  Digital Forensics

Colin Ramsden has been working feverishly on some modifications to WinFE that will appeal to everyone.    For some teaser screenshots, take a look here.   Bitlocker support, installing drivers while already booted to WinFE, clean shutdown that ejects the CD, and an easy to use Disk Management Console.  Believe it or not, Colin has even more to add.

Given the ability to make your own WinFE ISO with Colin's work, you surely will have one of the best forensic boot environments to date.

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Guest — Siv
Looks like it's going to be a useful tool. Well done Colin, keep up the good work.
Monday, 28 June 2010 19:45
Guest — Claus Valca
Oooohhh. Such a nice shiny GUI interface. I've got the original stock WinFE build I did and can use when the Linux-based LiveCD ... Read More
Saturday, 17 July 2010 07:29
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JUN
22
0

New Site and Updates

Posted by Brett Shavers
in  Digital Forensics

As you can see, the WinFE site has been migrated to WordPress.  This format allows me a little more freedom than Blogger as well as less time maintaining a website.  This site and work is free...be patient ;)

You can now find the batch files accessed through direct downloads.  I am more than happy to put up additional work or corrections/improvements to what is posted.  At this point, Colin Ramsden is working on his code in creating something I call the "SuperDuper Version" of Windows FE.  I'll let him describe the details when he is finished, but I promise, from what I've seen so far, it is really cool.

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JUN
11
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Current and Future Development of Windows FE

Posted by Brett Shavers
in  Digital Forensics
The WinFE journey…

From Troy Larson’s first vision of the Windows Forensic Environment to the improvements currently being made, WinFE is set to become one of the best forensic boot disks/USBs available.

The ease to which it can be created has been simplified greatly by Björn Ganster’s automated batch files (my initial batch files were elementary compared to Björn’s improvements).  Colin Ramsden is working some aspects of WinFE that really are impressive, such as GUI’s for WinFE, installing hasps drivers, mapping network drives, Apple HFS+ drivers, other program installations help, etc…   Jad Saliba of JadSoftware has plans to work on making IEF run in the WinFE environment.  Add these to Matt Churchhill’s version “WindowsRipper” modified from Harlan Carvey’s  “RegRipper” and you are set to add such a triage functionality to WinFE, that given 20 minutes in front of a computer, you may be able to get everything you need from the machine.  You can either determine if the computer is worth seizing at all, or in the case of a (legal!) snatch and grab op, grab only the data of importance from a host computer without the (criminal/terrorist) user ever knowing their computer was touched.

It is incredible what a group of contributors can have on a project that benefits the community. If you haven't gotten access to the shared folder, you can use this link to sign up for DropBox and I'll share the folder with you.  If you have already gotten a DropBox account, send me an email so I can share the folder with your current login.  I'd make the folder public, but would rather have at least one step to get to it rather than it open to the world so easily.  The neat thing about the shared folder, is that when someone puts in an updated batch file, you have access to it immediately.


For anyone waiting for WinFE to be available for one single and complete download...it won't happen.  There are some MS licensing issues that prevent that, so sit down for a bit, take a look at how to make one, and get started!  You won't regret it.
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Guest — Rob
Great info..and good to see there is Interest in this project from Developers/coders..
Monday, 14 June 2010 00:18
Guest — ihuntcrows
hi my dropbox email thing is ihuntcrows@aol.com or ihuntcrows. im interested in this shared folder. thanks
Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:47
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JUN
09
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Internet Evidence Finder (IEF): interview with Jad Saliba of JADSoftware.com

Posted by Brett Shavers
in  Digital Forensics
Jad Saliba, developer of the Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) and other neat software was interviewed recently and mentioned that he has plans to make IEF run portable on WinFE.  If you haven't purchased a copy of IEF (free to LE), take a look at it.  This would be a fantastic triage type application on WinFE as it searches for chat, email fragments (including Gmail!), Facebook snippets and fragments, Limewire, and more.

The day IEF is able to run on WinFE is the day I add it to mine ;)
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I donated to the IEF project back before Jad started charging for it and he was kind enough to give me two licenses for it. I've ... Read More
Wednesday, 09 June 2010 13:51
Guest — Rob
Agree..Thanks for the Effort on making this work with FE.. Good stuff!
Thursday, 10 June 2010 04:32
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JUN
02
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More Windows FE and triage notes (WindowsRipper?)

Posted by Brett Shavers
in  Digital Forensics

Matt Churchhill (http://mattchurchill.net/2010/06/windowsripper/) has been doing some work to supercharge RegRipper.  Take a look at his video and while watching, consider how this can affect your method to triage a computer when booted to WinFE...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4nBUXYGkBw&hl=en_US&fs=1&border=1]

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Guest — Rob
Am I correct that once you assign a drive letter to the Volume you are going to be touching the Drive in WinFE?
Wednesday, 02 June 2010 10:30
Guest — Anonymous
If you set a volume to read only, the disk is written to (offset 0x417). If a disk is set to read only, it is not written to. So... Read More
Wednesday, 02 June 2010 11:09
Guest — Matt C
Thanks for the link, Brett. I hadn't thought of putting this on WinFE before, but it's a great idea.
Wednesday, 02 June 2010 11:32
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MAY
28
1

Windows FE and Triage webinar

Posted by Brett Shavers
in  Digital Forensics

This should be a neat webinar on Windows FE and Triage.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/892321554

Check the "Using WinFE" page for tips on using WinFE for not only triage/preview, but other ways to use the tool.  Until I hear otherwise, I have found that X-Ways Forensics is the most complete forensic tool that can run on the Windows Forensic Environment without having to install dongles or hasps, dependent files, or other installation hassles.  Simply copying the X-Ways Forensic folder runs the program.  Take a look at the Triage/Preview link on this site for some things XWF can do in this sort of scenario.

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Guest — Anonymous
Great Catch..Signed up.. Now only if it was tomorrow we could save you alot of Email! ;-)
Friday, 28 May 2010 22:43
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