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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

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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. It has a wide range of tools to help for digital forensics investigations and incident response mechanisms. This updated second edition of Digital Forensics with Kali Linux covers the latest version of Kali Linux and The Sleuth Kit. You'll get to grips with modern techniques for analysis, extraction, and reporting using advanced tools such as FTK Imager, hex editor, and Axiom. Updated to cover digital forensics basics and advancements in the world of modern forensics, this book will also delve into the domain of operating systems. Progressing 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. The book will also show you how to create forensic images of data and maintain integrity using hashing tools. Finally, you'll cover advanced topics such as autopsies and acquiring investigation data from networks, operating system memory, and quantum cryptography. By the end of this book, you'll have gained hands-on experience of implementing all the pillars of digital forensics: acquisition, extraction, analysis, and presentation, all using Kali Linux tools.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Kali Linux – Not Just for Penetration Testing
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Section 2: Forensic Fundamentals and Best Practices
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Section 3: Forensic Tools in Kali Linux
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Section 4: Automated Digital Forensic Suites
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Chapter 8: Artifact Analysis

In this chapter, we'll cover several different tools to uncover various artifacts that may be very useful to our forensic investigations. Most of the tools used in this chapter focus specifically on memory and swap analysis, while Network Mapper (Nmap) and p0f focus more on the network and device.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Identifying and fingerprinting devices, operating systems, and running services with p0f and Nmap
  • Analyzing memory dumps to discover traces of ransomware
  • Performing swap analysis
  • Using swap_digger and mimipenguin for password dumping
  • Examining the Firefox browser and Gmail artifacts using pdgmail
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