PST邮件取证解析
原名：analyzing-outlook-pst-for-email-forensics
使用 libpff 和 pst-utils 解析 Outlook PST/OST 文件，提取邮件内容、附件及 MAPI 元数据，支持恢复已删除项目。适用于电子取证、法律 e-discovery 及事件响应。
- 分类
- 数据分析
- 版本
- v1.0
- 作者
- 弈韬(@ra1nzzz)
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- 发布
- 2026-08-18
- 更新
- 2026-08-19
- TRACE 评分
- 4 / 5
内容概览
Microsoft Outlook PST (Personal Storage Table) and OST (Offline Storage Table) files are critical evidence sources in digital forensics investigations. PST files store email messages, calendar events, contacts, tasks, and notes in a proprietary binary format based on the MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) property system. Forensic analysis of these files enables recovery of deleted emails (from the Recoverable Items folder), extraction of email headers for tracing message routes, analysis of attachments for malware or exfiltrated data, and reconstruction of communication patterns. Modern PST files use Unicode format with 4KB pages and can grow up to 50GB, while legacy ANSI format is limited to 2GB. - When investigating security incidents that require analyzing outlook pst for email forensics - When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this domain - When …