Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon...
by nullsense on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:00PM
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I ran OSForensics on the machine last night. It was my first time running a tool like this, and I while I didn't manage to find a smoking gun, I did find some questionable files masquerading as an installer where there were all kinds of different files and file types but they were actually all executables. I wound up deleting those.
What I did discover is that by default Chrome captures and stores every field you submit to every form in a SQLite database. The amount of PII that turned up was absolutely staggering. If I could only exfiltrate one file from a machine, it would be that.
It sort of boggles the mind that that's a thing at all. I don't ever want to touch a browser ever again.
What OS? I assume Windows? What kind of artifacts have you already discovered?
DNS is a surprisingly fruitful thing to pay attention to.
Some viruses will delete themselves if they detect things like Wireshark or Python are installed.
I believe this is one of the big boy tools, though I haven't used it: https://www.volatilityfoundation.org/about
https://www.varonis.com/blog/how-to-use-volatility looks like a fun exercise.