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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux
Digital Forensics with Kali Linux
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)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Digital Forensics
Installing Kali Linux
Understanding Filesystems and Storage Media
Incident Response and Data Acquisition
Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with DC3DD and Guymager
File Recovery and Data Carving with Foremost, Scalpel, and Bulk Extractor
Memory Forensics with Volatility
Autopsy – The Sleuth Kit
Network and Internet Capture Analysis with Xplico
Revealing Evidence Using DFF
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