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Reverse, Reveal, Recover: Windows Defender Quarantine Forensics

Max Groot & Erik Schamper TL;DR Windows Defender (the antivirus shipped with standard installations of Windows) places malicious files into quarantine upon detection. Reverse engineering mpengine.dll resulted in finding previously undocumented metadata in the Windows Defender quarantine folder that can be used for digital forensics and incident response. Existing scripts that extract quarantined files do … Continue reading Reverse, Reveal, Recover: Windows Defender Quarantine Forensics →

Reference details

Source category
research-report
First reported
Dec 14, 2023 05:13 UTC
Last reported
Dec 14, 2023 05:13 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 14, 2026 05:56 UTC
Record ID
bf61e5def835d0a7faa0a571d76a794a4ace598a3907d55631b31c6edf7f90f0

Published indicators

Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.

No validated file hashes or network indicators are stored for this record.

Source observations

intelligence_src_6df1fb5096a2991dbd

Source-provided label
Publisher RSS metadata
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Dec 14, 2023 05:13 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 14, 2026 05:56 UTC

This record contains metadata and attribution only. It does not host, download, unpack, render, or execute malware samples.

Feed collection status

Sources represented on this page. Publication and observation dates describe the content; successful batch dates describe local collection. A recent batch does not certify complete coverage or current provider availability.

1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 0 unverified.

Review source update dates and status
  • intelligence_src_6df1fb5096a2991dbdRecent successful batchLast successful batch: Last attempt:

Stale means older than twice the recorded collection interval, with a minimum of one hour; without an interval, the threshold is 24 hours. Cached content remains available while a feed is stale, paused, or unverified.