CollectInfo

Overview

Evidence: CollectInfo
Description: CollectInfo
Category: System
Platform: esxi
Short Name: cinfo
Is Parsed: Yes
Sent to Investigation Hub: Yes
Collect File(s): No

Background

Collection information tracks file-level details for collected artifacts including file paths, sizes, hashes, and timestamps. This metadata validates evidence integrity, supports deduplication, and provides file-level provenance for collected evidence.

Data Collected

This collector gathers structured data about collectinfo.

CollectInfo Data

Field	Description	Example
AccessTime	Access Time	2023-10-15 14:30:25+03:00
AccessCount	Access Count	123
URL	URL	Example value
Browser	Browser	Example value
Title	Title	Example value
VisitDuration	Visit Duration	Example value
Referrer	Referrer	Example value
TypedCount	Typed Count	123
IsHidden	Is Hidden	true
TransitionType	Transition Type	Example value
VisitID	Visit ID	123
TransitionQualifiers	Transition Qualifiers	Example value
User	User	Example value
Profile	Profile	Example value
HistoryFilePath	History File Path	Example value

Collection Method

This collector records metadata for each collected file, capturing file paths, file sizes, cryptographic hashes (for integrity verification), access/modification/change timestamps, and file permissions.

Forensic Value

Collection metadata ensures evidence integrity through hash verification, supports duplicate detection, enables timestamp analysis, and provides detailed inventory of collected artifacts. Hash values prove file integrity and detect tampering, while timestamps establish file timeline context.