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- Run in an isolated Windows x64 VM with snapshots.
- Monitor installer actions (file writes, registry changes, services/drivers installed).
- Use Procmon, Process Explorer, and Autoruns to see persistence mechanisms.
- Network monitoring: capture DNS, HTTP(S) endpoints; if HTTPS is used, note certificate chains.
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Software Release: Disk SM Windows x64 (June 2015)
Version: 11.20.x5.10 Exploring: disk-sm-windows-x64-jun-2015-version-11
5.1 Legacy Evidence Handling
- Old hard drives from cold cases, decommissioned servers, or obsolete SCADA systems.
- Modern erasure tools may fail to recognize older ATA/IDE or early SATA drives; the 2015 driver set may work better.
HANDLE hDrive = CreateFile("\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0", ...);
ATA_PASS_THROUGH_EX pt;
pt.Length = sizeof(ATA_PASS_THROUGH_EX);
pt.AtaFlags = ATA_FLAGS_DATA_OUT;
pt.DataTransferLength = 512;
// Write pattern buffer
DeviceIoControl(hDrive, IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH, ...);
Administrators use this software to perform critical data center tasks, including: Run in an isolated Windows x64 VM with snapshots
6.2 Challenges on x64
- PatchGuard prevented hooking disk drivers directly.
- Signed drivers were mandatory for kernel-mode access (Windows 8.1/10). A 2015 tool would have an EV certificate valid back then.
- UEFI Secure Boot could block booting from unsigned WinPE media – but many enterprise tools disabled it or used a signed bootloader.
