Posts tagged: #wpndatabase

A fictional walkthrough: what one user's notification database adds to an intrusion timeline — a download, an AV alert, a new app, a deleted chat message.

Step by step: open wpndatabase.db and its -wal in a free browser-based parser, triage findings, recover deleted toasts and export CSV, JSON or Timesketch.

Why dismissed and expired toasts survive in wpndatabase.db, where SQLite leaves them (freeblocks, freelist, WAL frames) and how to recover them reliably.

Windows notification database field reference: Notification, NotificationHandler, HandlerAssets, WNSPushChannel, FILETIME times and toast XML payload.

Where the Windows notification database lives on Windows 10 and 11, and how to collect it with its -wal file from live systems, images, KAPE or Velociraptor.

What the Windows notification database records, where it lives, what it proves and where it stops: a practical guide to wpndatabase.db for DFIR.