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Computer Forensics with FTK

By : Fernando Carbone
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Computer Forensics with FTK

By: Fernando Carbone

Overview of this book

<p>With the increase of electronic crimes and the need to constantly audit the proper use of resources, companies need qualified professionals and appropriate tools to carry out these activities. The FTK platform, with the ability to collect and analyze digital evidence quickly and with integrity, is a great solution to help professionals achieve these goals. It is extremely useful for conducting digital investigations, helping you conduct a thorough investigation through a single tool and ensure the integrity of evidence. It is hard to find technical information on this tool and that’s where this book will come in handy, helping professionals perform their activities with greater excellence.</p> <p>This tutorial leads by example, providing you with everything you need to use FTK and the tools included such as FTK Imager, Registry View, and PRTK in order to enhance your Computer Forensics knowledge in an easier and more efficient way.</p> <p>You will be introduced to the background of Computer Forensics, which include the types of digital devices that can be acquired and how to prepare for a new case of investigation. You will become acquainted with the FTK architecture and learn how to leverage its features in order to help you find the evidence as fast as possible. Through this book, you will also learn the memory forensics technique using the memory dump feature of FTK Imager. Furthermore, you will learn how to extract some important information such as process and DLL information, Sockets, and Driver List Open Handles.</p> <p>To conclude your tutorial, you will learn how to extract information from Windows Registry and how to recover passwords from the system and files. You will find this book an invaluable supplement to teach you all the steps required for the completion of investigations on digital media and to generate consistent and irrefutable evidence in court.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Computer Forensics with FTK
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Computer Forensics Using FTK
Index

Searching the case


One of the most important features of the tool, the search keyword, is used in almost all cases of research and can help you locate relevant information contained in files, documents, and e-mails.

The Index Search and Live Search options

A live search is a bit-by-bit comparison of the entire evidence set with the search term and takes slightly more time than an index search. Live searches also allow you to search regular expressions and hex values.

To conduct a live search, you can perform the following steps:

  1. Click on the Live Search tab.

  2. In the Text tab, insert your keyword and click on Add.

  3. You will now see the keyword inserted in the Search Terms list; click on Search.

  4. The results will appear in Live Search Results with the numbers of hits:

The Index Search option compares search terms with the indexed database. You should choose to generate an index file during preprocessing to use this kind of search.

To perform an index search, you can perform the following steps:

  1. Click on...