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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788625005

Length 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Shiva V. N. Parasram

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Digital Forensics FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing Kali Linux

3. Understanding Filesystems and Storage Media

4. Incident Response and Data Acquisition

5. Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with DC3DD and Guymager

6. File Recovery and Data Carving with Foremost, Scalpel, and Bulk Extractor

7. Memory Forensics with Volatility

8. Autopsy – The Sleuth Kit

9. Network and Internet Capture Analysis with Xplico

10. Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Introduction to Autopsy – The Sleuth Kit

Autopsy offers GUI access to a variety of investigative command-line tools from The Sleuth Kit, including file analysis, image and file hashing, deleted file recovery, and case management, among other capabilities. Autopsy can be problematic when installing but, fortunately for us, comes built into Kali Linux, and is also very easy to set up and use.

Although the Autopsy browser is based on The Sleuth Kit, features of Autopsy differ when using the Windows version as compared to the Linux version. Some of the official features offered by The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy 2.4 in Kali Linux include:

Image analysis: Analyzing directories and files including sorting files, recovering deleted files, and previewing files
File activity timelines: Creating timelines based on timestamps of files when they were written, accessed, and created
Image integrity: Creating MD5 hashes of the image file used, as well as individual files
Hash databases: Matching digital hashes or...

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