RE: Forensics on Word Documents

From: Umashankar Sathyanarayana (umashankar.sat_private)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 21:24:52 PDT

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    Two things to do on windoze systems:
    
    1. Open the document in a Hex Editor (search google for freeware) and see
    text strings...
    2. Go to
    http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=kb;en-us;Q186898 and
    build this program...it was useful for me once...
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Nicole Haywood [mailto:N.Haywoodat_private]
    Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:35 AM
    To: crazybarryat_private; forensicsat_private
    Subject: Re: Forensics on Word Documents
    
    
    Try running it with strings -a which tells it to look for ascii instead of
    unicode.
    
    BTW thanks everyone for their suggestions. And yes the windows strings
    utility came in very handy, as I didn't have access to unix to examine
    files.
    
    For those that are interested I am investigating a case of academic
    misconduct. Basically two students handed in the same assignment, and one is
    claiming the other student stole it, so I was trying to work out if there
    was any evidence in the word document itself which might indicate which
    student is telling the truth.
    
    Thanks again,
    
    Nicole
    
    At 14:10 19/09/01 +0000, you wrote:
    
    >Just downloaded Strings from sysinternals.  Very cool :)
    >But I do have a question about it....
    >
    >Although it gives me lots of information about the file there still seems
    >to be lots of information missing.  Such as the actual text of the
    >document.  Also, I believe that the printer that the document was defaulted
    >to print to is also included as part of the document.  So question
    >is....where's the rest of the stuff??
    >
    >Thanks,
    >Barry
    
    
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    Network Security Officer                Fax:   +61 2 93515001
    University of Sydney                    Email: N.Haywoodat_private
    
    
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