Challenge Overview

Tony Martin, Head of Security at Loan Shake Pvt Ltd, got the report from the SOC team stating that they have suspicious alerts. The alerts mentioned a suspect employee named John may have used the Svchost.exe file for malicious activity and deleted the file. Luckily SOC team collected all prefetch files. The security team wants you to determine if scvhost has been executed on the employee system. Your target machine is running on Windows with an IP address of 10.10.1.146. Your target machine will provide Prefetch files and your task is to identify the last execution time and number of run count. Note: - Credentials to Login (Username: - john, Password: - hf$#fgaQsed12)

What You Will Learn

  • Logging into the Windows machine and locating Prefetch files for forensic analysis.
  • Learning how Prefetch data stores execution details of applications.
  • Extracting key details such as last run timestamp and execution count of the target process.
  • Interpreting findings to determine whether svchost.exe was executed and potentially used for suspicious activity.

Program Curriculum

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