Windows Search Index Investigation: A Worked Example
A fictional intrusion on FIN-WKS-07 worked end to end from the Windows Search index: staging, a deleted credentials file, USB exfiltration and cloud upload.
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Windows Search Index: Evidence of Deleted Files
How the Windows Search index keeps paths, metadata and text of deleted files, where each trace survives in Windows.edb and Windows.db, and how to verify it.