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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

By : Shiva V. N. Parasram
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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

4.4 (11)
By: Shiva V. N. Parasram

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a Linux-based distribution that's widely used for penetration testing and digital forensics. This third edition is updated with real-world examples and detailed labs to help you take your investigation skills to the next level using powerful tools. This new edition will help you explore modern techniques for analysis, extraction, and reporting using advanced tools such as FTK Imager, Hex Editor, and Axiom. You’ll cover the basics and advanced areas of digital forensics within the world of modern forensics while delving into the domain of operating systems. As you advance through the chapters, you'll explore various formats for file storage, including secret hiding places unseen by the end user or even the operating system. You’ll also discover how to install Windows Emulator, Autopsy 4 in Kali, and how to use Nmap and NetDiscover to find device types and hosts on a network, along with creating forensic images of data and maintaining integrity using hashing tools. Finally, you'll cover advanced topics such as autopsies and acquiring investigation data from networks, memory, and operating systems. By the end of this digital forensics book, you'll have gained hands-on experience in implementing all the pillars of digital forensics: acquisition, extraction, analysis, and presentation – all using Kali Linux's cutting-edge tools.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Part 1: Blue and Purple Teaming Fundamentals
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Part 2: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Fundamentals and Best Practices
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Part 3: Kali Linux Digital Forensics and Incident Response Tools
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Part 4: Automated Digital Forensics and Incident Response Suites
18
Part 5: Network Forensic Analysis Tools

File basics

Before we get started on the practical aspects, let’s briefly go through some common terminology.

When we last covered filesystems in Chapter 6, Understanding File Systems and Storage, we learned that various operating systems use their own filesystems to be able to store, access, and modify data. Storage media use file systems to do the very same.

Metadata, or data about data, helps an operating system identify data. Metadata includes technical information, such as the creation and modification dates, and the file type of the data. This data makes it much easier to locate and index files.

As the name implies, unallocated space is an area of storage media that has been marked by an operating system or file table as empty, or unallocated to any file or data. Although the location of, and information about, the file is not present and sometimes corrupted, there are still characteristics about the file that reside in its header and footer that can identify...

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