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Hands-On Network Forensics

Hands-On Network Forensics

By : Nipun Jaswal
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Hands-On Network Forensics

Hands-On Network Forensics

3.2 (6)
By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Network forensics is a subset of digital forensics that deals with network attacks and their investigation. In the era of network attacks and malware threat, it’s now more important than ever to have skills to investigate network attacks and vulnerabilities. Hands-On Network Forensics starts with the core concepts within network forensics, including coding, networking, forensics tools, and methodologies for forensic investigations. You’ll then explore the tools used for network forensics, followed by understanding how to apply those tools to a PCAP file and write the accompanying report. In addition to this, you will understand how statistical flow analysis, network enumeration, tunneling and encryption, and malware detection can be used to investigate your network. Towards the end of this book, you will discover how network correlation works and how to bring all the information from different types of network devices together. By the end of this book, you will have gained hands-on experience of performing forensics analysis tasks.
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Section 1: Obtaining the Evidence
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Section 2: The Key Concepts
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Section 3: Conducting Network Forensics

Exercise 1 – a noob's keylogger

Consider a scenario where an attacker has planted a keylogger on one of the systems in the network. Your job as an investigator is to find the following pieces of information:

  • Find the infected system
  • Trace the data to the server
  • Find the frequency of the data that is being sent
  • Find what other information is carried besides the keystrokes
  • Try to uncover the attacker
  • Extract and reconstruct the files that have been sent to the attacker

Additionally, in this exercise, you need to assume that the packet capture (PCAP) file is not available and that you have to do the sniffing-out part as well. Let's say that you are connected to a mirror port on the network where you can see all the data traveling to and from the network.

The capture file for this network capture is available at https://github.com/nipunjaswal...

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