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Volume Shadow Copies

Point-in-time snapshots of a volume. They hold earlier versions of files an attacker has since modified or deleted, which sometimes means a copy of the registry from before the intrusion.

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.