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Web Historian: Reloaded

Written by Aaron LeMasters

We’ve been busy here on team agent at MANDIANT.  In the spirit of our long-standing support of free software in the Incident Response community, we are happy to announce the release of Web Historian 2.0.  This release is a complete rewrite and revamp of our very popular web history extraction tool.  This version of Web Historian comes packed with features and supports Firefox 2/3+, Chrome 3+, and Internet Explorer versions 5 through 8.  Here is a quick run-down of some of the new features:

  • Collects web history, cookie history, file download history, and form history into data sets
  • Simple/powerful UI based on tabbed organization of datasets
  • Perform a live artifact scan of the local system
  • Perform an artifact scan of one or more arbitrary history files from all supported browsers
  • Import results from existing XML scan documents
  • Data displayed in gridview style with full search, sort, and filter capabilities
  • Custom filters can be created and applied to one or more data sets
  • Export data sets to XML, HTML or CSV
  • Extract and export history files used in live artifact scan
  • Quick copy/paste selected gridview rows to clipboard
  • Customizable scan settings can tweak the scan to target specific browsers and data sets
  • Right-click context menu for narrowing gridview data instantly
  • Select which columns to display in each dataset
  • View page thumbnails and indexed content
  • Export sanitized version of history results to distribute to others
  • Website Analyzer provides visualization of datasets using bar graphs, pie charts and timelines
  • Website Profiler shows a quick “report card” of artifacts for various websites

The custom filters mentioned above are extremely useful for narrowing the scope of your web history investigation. Web Historian ships with several pre-defined filters that allow you to quickly cull through large web history data sets.  For example, you can instantly filter the web history data by visit type to only show hidden page views caused by ads; or, filter the file download history data to only show downloaded media (movies, images, etc.), PDF’s, or plain text files.  You can easily create your own filters using the filter editor and configure Web Historian to automatically save any of your searches as filters.  Finally, more filters are accessible with a simple right-click on any web history item.

Also new in Web Historian 2.0 are the Website Analyzer and Website Profiler features.  The Website Analyzer allows you to visualize web history data (rather than scrolling through pages of records) and generate useful bar graphs, pie charts and timeline plots that can be used in an external report.  The Website Profiler generates a quick “report card” summary of any domain in your web history data, showing all artifacts created on your system when it was visited (page titles, cookies, cached files, form data, etc).  This feature allows you to get a quick impression of how a site behaves.  The screenshot below shows the profile of CNN.com:

We hope you enjoy the new features in this release of Web Historian.  As usual, if you have any questions, comments or feedback, please head on over to the user forum.

Stay tuned for even more exciting features coming soon!  If you would like a demo or talk to me about features, I will be at Blackhat USA in Las Vegas this summer and hope to be accepted to demo Web Historian 2.0 at Blackhat Arsenal.  And finally, don’t miss out on our memory forensics training at Blackhat:  Advanced Memory Forensics in Incident Response.

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. 16 Jun 10 | Conferences, General, Products | Comments (0)

New Memoryze, Audit Viewer, and Training

Written by Jamie Butler

For those who are not on our mailing list for Memoryze or Audit Viewer, we released a new version a little over a week ago. The new version of the software includes all of the memory analysis features that are available in the newly released MANDIANT Intelligent Response (MIR) 1.4.
 

So what is included in Memoryze and Audit Viewer 1.4? Well, here is the short of it.
 

Memoryze:

  • Support for Windows 2003 x64 SP2
  • Improved support of Vista SP1 and SP2 including port enumeration and a better installer
  • Enumeration of digital signatures for all loaded modules in a processes’ address space, hooked and hooking drivers, and all drivers found by driver signature scans
  • Enumeration of MD5/SHA1/SHA256 hash on disk for all loaded modules in a process’ address space and all drivers found by driver signature scans
  • Updated documentation
  • Single installer for 64-bit and 32-bit versions

 
Audit Viewer:

  • Improvements to the Malware Rating Index (MRI)
  •      Report visualization of MRI results
  •      MRI rule editors that will allow users to graphically edit the MRI rule file
  •      Handle Trust view to help identify suspicious handles
  • Ability to search results within a specific process
  • Multi-select with copy
  • Multi-select and export to a CSV file

 
Those who attended the CanSecWest Training in March have already been enjoying many of these features in beta form for months, and we are committed to ensuring that those who attend the Advanced Memory Forensics in Incident Response class at Black Hat will get early access to the next version of Memorzye, which will support Windows 7 64-bit.
 
As for the Black Hat training, there is a lot of new and updated content for 2010.

  • Coverage of 64-bit operating systems
  • New section on malware covering different malware techniques and how they stand out in memory
  • Four new case studies ranging from real Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) incidents, to spear phishing attacks, and everything in between
  • Student receive early access Memoryze and Audit Viewer for Windows 7 64-bit
  • Students receive the only free tool to analyze Windows Vista
  • Students receive the only free tool to analyze Windows 2003 64-bit
  • Better data collection to help identify processes and drivers as malicious or not
  • Added the Malware Rating Index (MRI), which helps automatically identify many malware behaviors discussed in the class. Through a simple user interface, students learn how to write rules to identify malware in their own work environments. MRI then uses those rules to score processes as suspicious or not.

 
I would like to thank James Long who pointed out an issue with the batch scripts* and Peter Villadsen who worked so hard to improve the build process and installation for Memoryze. Peter and I would also like to thank all our loyal users. We appreciate all your feedback, and we hope to see you in Las Vegas.

 
* When specifying an output directory from the command line with the batch scripts in Memoryze, the directory must already exist.

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. 06 Jun 10 | Conferences, General, Products | Comments (0)