killchain-compendium/forensics/ntfs.md

NTFS

• Has the following advantages over FAT
  • Journaling
  • ACL
  • Volume Shadow Copy
  • Alternate Data Stream

Master File Table

• VBR references to $MFT
• $LOGFILE stores transactions of the file system
• $UsnJrnl changed files, and reason for change

Caching

• File information is cached for frequent use in

C:\Windows\Prefetch\*.pf

• An SQLite database can be found under

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\ConnectedDevicesPlatform\{randomfolder}\ActivitiesCache.db

Jumplist

• Stores recently used files of applications inside the taskbar

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations

Shortcut Files

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office\Recent\

Internet Explorer History

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache\WebCacheV*.dat

Removeable Device Setup Log

C:\Windows\inf\setupapi.dev.log