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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a Linux-based distribution used mainly for penetration testing and digital forensics. It has a wide range of tools to help in forensics investigations and incident response mechanisms. You will start by understanding the fundamentals of digital forensics and setting up your Kali Linux environment to perform different investigation practices. The book will delve into the realm of operating systems and the various formats for file storage, including secret hiding places unseen by the end user or even the operating system. The book will also teach you to create forensic images of data and maintain integrity using hashing tools. Next, you will also master some advanced topics such as autopsies and acquiring investigation data from the network, operating system memory, and so on. The book introduces you to powerful tools that will take your forensic abilities and investigations to a professional level, catering for all aspects of full digital forensic investigations from hashing to reporting. By the end of this book, you will have had hands-on experience in implementing all the pillars of digital forensics—acquisition, extraction, analysis, and presentation using Kali Linux tools.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
10
Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Chapter 10. Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Welcome to the last chapter; you've made it. The final tool we'll be using is the Digital Forensic Framework (DFF). DFF performs the automated analysis of images using a modular model all in one simple and user-friendly graphical user interface. DFF supports several image file formats including .dd, .raw, .img, .bin, E01, EWF, and AFF. Modules can be applied to view various file formats using embedded viewers for video, audio, PDFs, documents, images, and registry files.

The following are also supported by DFF:

  • Browser history analysis
  • File recovery
  • Metadata and EXIF data analysis
  • Memory/RAM analysis

Having all these features in one GUI allows for easy investigation and analysis of acquired images. For the exercises in this chapter, we'll be using images already acquired and available for download. This does not mean that we should use only one tool (such as DFF) for analysis. I recommend using at least two tools for all investigative tasks so that the...