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Published inAug 2017
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Scar de Courcier
Scar de Courcier
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Scar de Courcier

Scar de Courcier is Senior Editor at digital forensics website Forensic Focus. She also works as an independent consultant on online and offline child protection projects. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, pretending she lives on the USS Voyager, and hanging out with her cat.
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Oleg Skulkin
Oleg Skulkin
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Oleg Skulkin

Oleg Skulkin is the Head of Digital Forensics and Malware Analysis Laboratory at Group-IB. Oleg has worked in the fields of digital forensics, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence and research for over a decade, fueling his passion for uncovering new techniques used by hidden adversaries. Oleg has authored and co-authored multiple blog posts, papers, and books on related topics and holds GCFA and GCTI certifications.
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Making a timeline in Autopsy

Autopsy is a popular piece of open source freeware with many advocates in the digital forensics community. The tool performs all the basic functions required for investigative work, and also makes it easy for technical users to extend it by creating compatible plugins.

The timeline feature is generally loaded within a case that is already running, and ideally needs to have several options enabled in order to be used efficiently, these being:

  • Hash lookup with NSRL
  • Recent activity
  • EXIF data

Getting ready

First, load up your case in Autopsy and then click Timeline at the top of the page. A new window will now open, which will give you access to the Timeline feature.

Although Autopsy's Timeline...

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Authors (2)

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Scar de Courcier

Scar de Courcier is Senior Editor at digital forensics website Forensic Focus. She also works as an independent consultant on online and offline child protection projects. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, pretending she lives on the USS Voyager, and hanging out with her cat.
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Oleg Skulkin

Oleg Skulkin is the Head of Digital Forensics and Malware Analysis Laboratory at Group-IB. Oleg has worked in the fields of digital forensics, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence and research for over a decade, fueling his passion for uncovering new techniques used by hidden adversaries. Oleg has authored and co-authored multiple blog posts, papers, and books on related topics and holds GCFA and GCTI certifications.
Read more about Oleg Skulkin