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Table of Contents..............................................................................................................3
Legal Notice.....................................................................................................................15
EnCase® License Agreement.........................................................................................15
Copyright.....................................................................................................................15
Definitions ...................................................................................................................15
License and Certain Restrictions..............................................................................15
Non-Exclusive License...............................................................................................16
Support ........................................................................................................................17
Standard Support ...................................................................................................17
Premium License Support Program, Annual Payment Option..........................17
Premium License Support Program, Three-Year Payment Option ...................18
EnScript® Macros WARNING ....................................................................................18
Disclaimer of Warranties............................................................................................18
Limitation of Liability and Damages .........................................................................19
Export Restrictions.....................................................................................................19
U.S. Government End Users:.....................................................................................20
General Provisions .....................................................................................................20
Preface .............................................................................................................................23
Manual Organization ..............................................................................................23
Minimum Recommended Requirements..............................................................24
Help Resources ......................................................................................................24
Technical Support ..................................................................................................25
EnCase Message Boards.......................................................................................25
About Guidance Software ..............................................................................................27
EnCase Forensic ....................................................................................................27
EnCase Enterprise..................................................................................................27
Guidance Software's Professional Development and Training .............................28
Law Enforcement Courses....................................................................................28
Computer Forensics and Incident Response Courses ......................................28
Expert Courses.......................................................................................................29
Guidance Software's Professional Services Group................................................29
Additional Corporate Services ..................................................................................29
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Chapter 1: What’s New in EnCase Version 4 ...............................................................33
Enhanced User Interface............................................................................................33
Outlook .PST Files ......................................................................................................35
Outlook Express .DBX Files ......................................................................................35
Time Zone Support .....................................................................................................35
Unicode Support.........................................................................................................35
Advanced Search Algorithm......................................................................................36
Dynamic Disk Support ...............................................................................................37
NT 4.0 Disk Configuration Support...........................................................................38
NTFS and Unix File Permissions and Ownership ...................................................38
NTFS Compression.....................................................................................................39
Threaded Crash Protection........................................................................................39
Enhanced OLE File Support ......................................................................................40
Filters and Queries .....................................................................................................40
Enhanced EnScript Interface.....................................................................................41
Enhanced Linux / Unix File System Handling..........................................................42
Additional File System Support ................................................................................43
Enhanced Windows Registry Mounting ...................................................................43
EnCase Modules and Extensions .............................................................................43
EnCase EDS Module...................................................................................................44
EnCase VFS Module ...................................................................................................44
EnCase PDE Module...................................................................................................45
EnCase NAS Extension..............................................................................................46
SafeBack 2.x Support.................................................................................................46
Security Key ................................................................................................................46
The Parallel Port Security key...............................................................................47
The USB Security key ............................................................................................47
Chapter 2: Installing EnCase .........................................................................................49
The EnCase Installation CD and Autorun ................................................................49
The CD Installation Menu and Contents...................................................................49
Security Key Drivers Installation...............................................................................50
Installing EnCase Version 4.......................................................................................53
Software Updates........................................................................................................55
Configuration Questions............................................................................................56
Security Key Questions .............................................................................................57
Chapter 3: Creating the EnCase Boot Disk ..................................................................61
Windows Acquisition Issues.................................................................................61
Creating the EnCase Boot Disk ............................................................................62
Steps to Create the EnCase Barebones Boot Disk.............................................62
Booting a Computer with the EnCase Boot Disk ....................................................66
EnCase Network Boot Disk........................................................................................67
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FAQs about EnCase Boot Disk .................................................................................67
Chapter 4:EnCase for DOS.............................................................................................69
Launching EnCase for DOS ..................................................................................69
EnCase for DOS Functions........................................................................................69
Locking / Unlocking (L)..........................................................................................70
Acquiring.................................................................................................................70
Hashing ...................................................................................................................70
Server ......................................................................................................................74
Mode ........................................................................................................................76
Quit ..........................................................................................................................77
Chapter 5: Previewing Versus Acquiring .....................................................................79
Limitations of Previewing......................................................................................79
Advantages of Previewing.....................................................................................80
Live Device and FastBloc Indicators....................................................................80
Preview Questions......................................................................................................81
Acquisition Questions................................................................................................81
Chapter 6 : Parallel Port Acquisistion...........................................................................83
After acquisition is complete ................................................................................89
Chapter 7: Network Cable Acquisition..........................................................................91
Creating the EnCase Network Boot Disk (ENBD)....................................................91
Performing the Crossover Network Cable Acquisition ..........................................94
Windows 98.............................................................................................................95
Windows 2000/XP...................................................................................................96
Chapter 8: Drive-to-Drive Acquisition...........................................................................99
Drive Geometry Problems..........................................................................................99
Benefits and Drawbacks ..........................................................................................100
Steps to Follow .........................................................................................................100
Acquiring Macintosh devices..................................................................................108
Acquiring Unix and Linux ........................................................................................108
After the Acquisition Is Complete...........................................................................108
Chapter 9: FastBloc Acquisitions ...............................................................................111
FastBloc Acquisition Process.............................................................................111
Acquiring in Windows Without FastBloc...........................................................120
Acquiring in Windows with a non-FastBloc Write-Blocker..............................120
After Acquisition Is Complete.............................................................................120
Chapter 10: Acquiring Disk Configurations ...............................................................121
Software RAID...........................................................................................................122
Windows NT: EnCase Version 4 software Disk Configurations......................122
Dynamic Disk........................................................................................................123
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Hardware Disk Configuration ..................................................................................124
Disk Configuration Set Acquired as One Drive.................................................124
Disk Configurations Acquired as Separate Drives ...........................................124
Validating Parity on a RAID-5..............................................................................126
SCSI Drives and DOS ...............................................................................................127
Chapter 11: Acquiring Palm PDAs ..............................................................................129
Palms Supported..................................................................................................129
Directions ..............................................................................................................129
Getting Out of Console Mode..............................................................................137
One Final Note on Palms .....................................................................................137
Chapter 12: Acquiring Removable Media...................................................................139
Zip / Jaz Disks ...........................................................................................................139
Floppy Disks..............................................................................................................141
Write-Protecting a Floppy Disk ...........................................................................141
Superdisks (LS-120) .................................................................................................141
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW............................................................................................141
Flash media ...............................................................................................................142
Equipment needed to preview/acquire flash media..........................................142
How to acquire flash media.................................................................................143
Examining flash media.........................................................................................143
Acquiring Multiple Pieces of Media ........................................................................144
Chapter 13: First Steps.................................................................................................149
Time Zone Settings...................................................................................................149
Recover Folders on FAT Volumes ..........................................................................151
Behind the Scenes with Recover Folders..........................................................152
Recovering NTFS Folders........................................................................................154
Lost Files in UFS and EXT2/3 Partitions ............................................................156
Signature Analysis....................................................................................................157
File Signatures......................................................................................................157
Adding a New Signature ......................................................................................158
Starting a Signature Analysis .............................................................................160
Viewing the Results..............................................................................................160
Hash Analysis ...........................................................................................................162
File Hashing ..........................................................................................................162
Creating a Hash Set..................................................................................................162
Importing Hash Sets.................................................................................................164
HashKeeper...........................................................................................................164
NSRL Hash Sets ...................................................................................................167
To import hash sets from the NSRL Reference Data Set CD:..........................167
Rebuilding the Hash Library....................................................................................170
Benefits of a Hash Analysis.....................................................................................170
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Starting a Hash Analysis .....................................................................................171
Analyzing the Hash Results ................................................................................172
EnScripts ...................................................................................................................172
Initialize Case (v4) ................................................................................................173
FAT Info Record Finder (v4) and NTFS Info2 Record Finder (v4) ...................173
File Finder (v4)......................................................................................................173
IE History Parser with Keyword Search (v4) .....................................................173
Link File Parser (v4) .............................................................................................173
Find Unique EMail Address List (v4)..................................................................173
Chapter 14: Navigating EnCase...................................................................................175
Creating a New Case ................................................................................................175
Name......................................................................................................................176
Examiner’s Name..................................................................................................176
Default Export Folder...........................................................................................176
Temporary Folder.................................................................................................176
Case Management ....................................................................................................177
Concurrent Case Management ...........................................................................177
The Options Dialog...................................................................................................178
Global ....................................................................................................................178
Colors ....................................................................................................................180
Fonts......................................................................................................................181
EnScript.................................................................................................................182
Storage Paths .......................................................................................................183
Adding Evidence Files to a Case ............................................................................184
Sessions Option .......................................................................................................187
Error Messages.........................................................................................................189
Verifying the Evidence .............................................................................................190
Adding Raw Image Files ..........................................................................................191
SafeBack and VMware Images ................................................................................193
Interface.....................................................................................................................196
EnCase Views............................................................................................................197
The “All Files” Button ..........................................................................................197
Cases .....................................................................................................................197
Bookmarks ................................................................................................................198
Devices ......................................................................................................................199
File Types ..................................................................................................................200
File Signatures ..........................................................................................................201
File Viewers ...............................................................................................................201
Keywords...................................................................................................................202
Search Hits ................................................................................................................202
Security IDs ...............................................................................................................203
Text Styles.................................................................................................................206
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Scripts........................................................................................................................207
Hash Sets...................................................................................................................208
EnScript Types..........................................................................................................209
Table View .................................................................................................................210
Cases Table View Columns Explained ...................................................................211
Name......................................................................................................................211
Filter.......................................................................................................................211
In Report................................................................................................................211
File Ext...................................................................................................................212
File Type ................................................................................................................212
File Category.........................................................................................................212
Signature ...............................................................................................................212
Description............................................................................................................213
Is Deleted...............................................................................................................213
Last Accessed ......................................................................................................213
File Created...........................................................................................................213
Last Written...........................................................................................................213
Entry Modified.......................................................................................................213
File Deleted ...........................................................................................................214
Logical Size...........................................................................................................214
Physical Size.........................................................................................................214
Starting Extent......................................................................................................214
File Extents ...........................................................................................................214
Permissions ..........................................................................................................215
Evidence File.........................................................................................................218
File Identifier .........................................................................................................218
Hash Value ............................................................................................................218
Hash Set ................................................................................................................218
Hash Category ......................................................................................................218
Full Path ................................................................................................................218
Short Name ...........................................................................................................219
Unique Name.........................................................................................................219
Original Path .........................................................................................................219
Organizing Columns.................................................................................................219
Rearranging Columns..........................................................................................219
Hiding and Showing Columns ............................................................................220
Sorting Files in Columns .........................................................................................220
EnCase Icon Descriptions .......................................................................................221
Gallery View...............................................................................................................226
America Online .ART files........................................................................................228
Timeline View ............................................................................................................228
Report View ...............................................................................................................230
EnScript View............................................................................................................231
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