Investigating Ransomware Attack Artifacts When to Use - Immediately after discovering ransomware encryption on systems - When performing forensic analysis to understand the full scope of a ransomware incident - For identifying the ransomware variant and determining if decryption is possible - When tracing the attack chain from initial access to encryption - For documenting evidence to support law enforcement and insurance claims Prerequisites - Forensic images of affected systems (preserve before remediation) - Memory dumps captured before system shutdown (if available) - Ransom notes and enc…