You're reading from Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Enhance your investigation skills by performing network and memory forensics with Kali Linux 2022.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635153

Length 414 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Shiva V. N. Parasram

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Blue and Purple Teaming Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Red, Blue, and Purple Teaming Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Digital Forensics

4. Chapter 3: Installing Kali Linux

5. Chapter 4: Additional Kali Installations and Post-Installation Tasks

6. Chapter 5: Installing Wine in Kali Linux

7. Part 2: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Fundamentals and Best Practices

8. Chapter 6: Understanding File Systems and Storage

9. Chapter 7: Incident Response, Data Acquisitions, and DFIR Frameworks

10. Part 3: Kali Linux Digital Forensics and Incident Response Tools

11. Chapter 8: Evidence Acquisition Tools

12. Chapter 9: File Recovery and Data Carving Tools

13. Chapter 10: Memory Forensics and Analysis with Volatility 3

14. Chapter 11: Artifact, Malware, and Ransomware Analysis

15. Part 4: Automated Digital Forensics and Incident Response Suites

16. Chapter 12: Autopsy Forensic Browser

17. Chapter 13: Performing a Full DFIR Analysis with the Autopsy 4 GUI

18. Part 5: Network Forensic Analysis Tools

19. Chapter 14: Network Discovery Tools

20. Chapter 15: Packet Capture Analysis with Xplico

21. Chapter 16: Network Forensic Analysis Tools

22. Index

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Data carving with Scalpel

Scalpel was created as an improvement of a much earlier version of Foremost. Scalpel aims to address the high CPU and RAM usage issues of Foremost when carving data.

Unlike Foremost, file types of interest must be specified by an investigator in the Scalpel configuration file. This file is called scalpel.conf and is located at etc/scapel/:

Figure 9.16 – The Scalpel configuration file

To specify the file types, the investigator must remove the comments at the start of the line containing the file type, as all supported file types are commented out with a hashtag at the beginning of the file type. The following screenshot shows the default Scalpel configuration file (scalpel.conf) with all file types commented out. Note that each line begins with a hashtag: