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NTFS $Logfile structure

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(@hodboh)
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hi everyone! I'm trying to understand how $logfile works.. i red on Carrier, and on other many books, but very little is known about $logfile structure.

I red this forum, too, ad i red that someone made some tests about it… i'd like to have information… can you help me?


   
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(@hodboh)
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i found on web something about structure of the first part of $logfile, the restart pages… but nothing about the records page..


   
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joakims
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This is probably the closest to any documentation you can get; http//tomoyo.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/lxr/source/fs/ntfs/ Look at logfile.c and logfile.h. Good luck studying.


   
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(@hodboh)
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i red that structure from that site… but it talks only about restart pages… \


   
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joakims
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A few more hints on the actual content of the records; http//twiki.dsi.uniroma1.it/pub/Sistemioperativi3/OnLine/NTFSLog.pdf


   
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(@hodboh)
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uhm i think it's not enough… i red that there is a script for encase for logfile parsing… do u know if it works correctly ?


   
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pbobby
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it does not parse it completely - instead it carves out the most common artifacts found in the $logfile, namely MFT records and lnk files (and one other but I forget).


   
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(@hodboh)
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damn.. i'm trying to make some tests but without a structure is hard to understand..


   
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(@kovar)
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Greetings,

Welcome to the world of forensics - there is no "Easy Button"!

_David


   
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