Breaking Forensic Images Booted as a Virtual Machine

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Breaking Forensic Images Booted as a Virtual Machine

I've dug around a bit and found some older examples of software that will detect whether or not the current system is being run in a virtual environment. The main purpose here is to trip up the examiners. Make them waste their time, their clients time and everyone elses. Make the costs of a computer forensics examination even more expensive.

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Modify TrueCrypt Encryption Boot Loader Strings

In a previous post I mentioned that TrueCrypt leaves behind a string in its boot loader (that identifies it as a TrueCrypt boot loader) when using the full disk encryption feature. As you can see in the screenshot below I have modified the original "TrueCrypt Boot Loader" string to read "Windows Boot Loader."

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