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Recycle Bin ($I and $R)

A deleted file becomes a pair: $R holding the content and $I holding the original path, size and deletion time. In insider cases the $I is often what establishes intent.

What members see here

  • Every path this artifact lives at, and which builds each applies to.
  • What it proves, and what it does not prove, which is the part that matters.
  • How to parse it, and the tooling that reads it correctly.
  • Hunting queries for Splunk, Sentinel and Elastic, with their false-positive notes.