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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security." - Benjamin Franklin https://malwaremaloney.blogspot.com

Made an update to XstReader. It was unusable with larger ost files. It now loads large ost files in seconds making it usable again. Have a pull request in but not counting on it being accepted due to inactivity. Let me know what you think. #DFIR github.com/Beercow/XstR...

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XstReader is an open source viewer for Microsoft Outlook’s .ost and .pst files (also those protected by unknown password). You can view and inspect all content and export messages and attachments (...

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When launching a program as admin, consent.exe runs with a parent process of svchost. If successful, consent.exe exits and the new process is launched with explorer as its parent. If not, we can’t always tell what was trying to be ran. Until now. github.com/Beercow/Cons...

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When launching a program as admin, consent.exe runs with a parent process of svchost. If successful, consent.exe exits and the new process is launched with explorer as its parent. If not, we can’t always tell what was trying to be ran. Until now. github.com/Beercow/Cons...

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That time of year again when everybody starts abbreviating cybersecurity awareness month as CSAM. 21 pages deep of google searches for that term and not a single mention of cybersecurity awareness month. Go figure.

Appears OneDrive snuck a new sync client in. Works with personal accounts at the moment. It’s WebView2. You can find data in the following locations: AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OD4 AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\Logs\OD4 Where are my browser forensics experts at? #DFIR

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Today we learned Fishrocket (the one with the doughnut) has cancer. It’s an aggressive form of mast cell tumors. Treatment usually involves removing them but there are too many. They prescribe prednisone because they itch. Has diabetes so can’t give him prednisone. Poor guy.

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1/ I successfully tested a LSASS dumping technique on a Windows 10 lab machine, which we encountered on a recent Incident Response engagement (no EDR, default Defender installed). The "MiniDumpWriteDump" technique, as described here [1], was successful in writing the LSASS process to disk.

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