Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills/skills/analyzing-mft-for-deleted-file-recovery/references/standards.md

Standards and References - MFT Deleted File Recovery

Standards

• NIST SP 800-86: Guide to Integrating Forensic Techniques into Incident Response
• ISO/IEC 27037: Guidelines for identification, collection, acquisition and preservation of digital evidence
• SWGDE Best Practices for Computer Forensics

Key Technical References

• NTFS Documentation (Microsoft): File system internals and MFT structure
• MFTECmd by Eric Zimmerman: Primary parsing tool for $MFT, $J, $LogFile, $Boot
• analyzeMFT (Python): Open-source MFT parser for cross-platform analysis
• ntfstool (GitHub): Forensics tool for NTFS parsing, MFT, BitLocker, deleted files

MITRE ATT&CK Mappings

• T1070.004 - Indicator Removal: File Deletion
• T1070.006 - Indicator Removal: Timestomping
• T1485 - Data Destruction
• T1561 - Disk Wipe

NTFS Specifications

• MFT Record Size: 1024 bytes (default)
• MFT Entry 0: $MFT (self-reference)
• MFT Entry 1: $MFTMirr (mirror of first 4 entries)
• MFT Entry 2: $LogFile (transaction log)
• MFT Entry 5: Root directory
• MFT Entry 6: $Bitmap (cluster allocation)
• MFT Entry 8: $BadClus (bad cluster list)
• MFT Entry 11: $Extend (extended metadata)