Why build a framework? The question could be, why develop a script at all? Frequently, we perform the same series of steps for a given piece of evidence. For example, we commonly prepare reports for LNK, prefetch, and jumplist files, examine registry keys, and establish external device and network activity to answer forensic questions. As we've seen, we can develop a script to parse these artifacts for us and display the data in a format that's conducive for rapid analysis. Why not write a series of scripts, each responsible for one artifact, and then control them with a singular script, to execute all at once and hence further automate our analysis?
A framework can be developed to run a series of scripts and parse multiple artifacts at once. The output of such a framework could be a series of analysis-ready spreadsheets. This allows the examiner to skip the...
