Challenge Overview

You are working as a forensic investigator for BlueTrip IT Tech Solutions in Bangalore, India. Your company director has detected some unauthorised activity on his laptop (running Ubuntu OS) while he left it unlocked and was out for lunch for 3 minutes at the office canteen. Now your director is asking you to investigate his laptop. Your task is to investigate the system to detect any activity and report it back to your director. Your target is a machine running on Ubuntu with an IP address of 10.10.1.109. You are required to connect to the Ubuntu machine using a remote desktop connection and conduct the forensic investigation on it. By completing this task, you will gain practical experience in the role of forensic investigator. Note: Credentials to Remote Desktop Connection (Username: lab, Password: 123456)

What You Will Learn

  • Remote forensic access techniques, including securely connecting to a Linux system via RDP and preserving evidence integrity during investigation.
  • Analyzing Linux command history artifacts, such as .bash_history, to identify suspicious or unauthorized commands executed during the incident window.
  • Performing browser forensics on Mozilla Firefox, specifically extracting and analyzing the places.sqlite database from the user profile.
  • Using database forensic tools like DB Browser for SQLite to query browsing history, timestamps, and visited URLs.
  • Applying structured incident investigation methodology, reconstructing the attacker\\u2019s timeline (what was accessed, when, and how) and producing a clear forensic report for the director regarding the Ubuntu target (10.10.1.109).

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