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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

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Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a Linux-based distribution used mainly for penetration testing and digital forensics. It has a wide range of tools to help in forensics investigations and incident response mechanisms. You will start by understanding the fundamentals of digital forensics and setting up your Kali Linux environment to perform different investigation practices. The book will delve into the realm of operating systems and the various formats for file storage, including secret hiding places unseen by the end user or even the operating system. The book will also teach you to create forensic images of data and maintain integrity using hashing tools. Next, you will also master some advanced topics such as autopsies and acquiring investigation data from the network, operating system memory, and so on. The book introduces you to powerful tools that will take your forensic abilities and investigations to a professional level, catering for all aspects of full digital forensic investigations from hashing to reporting. By the end of this book, you will have had hands-on experience in implementing all the pillars of digital forensics—acquisition, extraction, analysis, and presentation using Kali Linux tools.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at memory forensics and analysis using some of the many plugins available within the Volatility Framework. One of the first, and most important, steps in working with Volatility is choosing the profile that Volatility will use throughout the analysis. This profile tells Volatility what type of operating system is being used. Once the profile was chosen, we were able to successfully perform process, network, registry, DLL, and even malware analysis using this versatile tool. As we've seen, Volatility can perform several important functions in digital forensics and should be used together with other tools we've used previously to perform in-depth and detailed forensic analysis and investigations.

Note

Be sure to download more publicly available memory images and samples to test your skills in this area. Experiment with as many plugins as you can and of course, be sure to document your findings and consider sharing them online.

 

In our next chapter, we will move...

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