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The updater that is not OneDrive

Read the user’s Run key from a memory image with windows.registry.printkey, find the entry that imitates OneDrive, and confirm the file and process with filescan and pslist.

  • Terminal mission
  • Beginner
  • 3 objectives
  • 0 of 3 solved

Briefing

tomas’s laptop starts something at every logon that the EDR cannot attribute to a vendor. The image is cases/tomas-lt/tomas-lt.raw.

Volatility can read registry hives that are loaded in memory. The Run key under the user’s NTUSER hive starts programs at logon. windows.filescan lists file objects the kernel had open.

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forensics-ws · Memory forensics

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