Didier Stevens

Monday 3 August 2015

Jump List Forensics

Filed under: Forensics,My Software — Didier Stevens @ 0:00

Jump List files are actually OLE files. These files (introduced with Windows 7) give access to recently accessed applications and files. They have forensic value. You can find them in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations and C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations.

The AutomaticDestinations files are the OLE files, so you can analyze them with oledump. There are a couple of tools that can extract information from these files.

Here you can see oledump analyzing an automatic Jump List file:

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The stream DestList contains the Jump List data:

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There are several sites on the Internet explaining the format of this data, like this one. I used this information to code a plugin for Jump List files:

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The plugin takes an option (-f) to condense the information to just filenames:

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