Digital Forensics Tool - Nirlauncher by Nirsoft
Nirlauncher is a comprehensive suite of more than 200 portable utility tools developed by NirSoft, designed to assist in system administration, network monitoring, and forensic investigations. These lightweight tools include password recovery, internet browsing history retrieval, network traffic analysis, and system information gathering.
NirLauncher provides a centralized interface to easily access and launch the tools, which are especially useful for IT professionals and digital forensics analysts to troubleshoot and diagnose issues on Windows systems. Since all the utilities are portable, they can be run from external drives without installation, making NirLauncher an ideal choice for live system investigation.
The suite is commonly used in forensics to gather evidence related to user activity, network configurations, and system-level changes, with outputs that can be saved and analyzed further in post-incident reviews or legal cases.
Use Cases: Retrieving Security Questions
NirLauncher is a collection of tools and one of them that is valuable for forensics investigation is Password Recovery Tools, which might be used to unlock the suspect’s system.
Here, we can see the “SecurityQuestionsView”.
To use this tool, right click and “run as administrator”.
Then, select “Load security questions from an external drive.”
Then, load the SYSTEm registry key from C:\Windows\system32\config
