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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
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Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Installing Kali Linux in VirtualBox


VirtualBox can run on many platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris. In this section, we install VirtualBox 5.1.28 into our host machine and take it from there.

VirtualBox can be found at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads:

Preparing the Kali Linux virtual machine

Once VirtualBox has been downloaded, it can be installed and then configured to run Kali Linux and many other operating systems, depending on the amount of RAM available.

When setting up a new guest OS or guest virtual machine, we first click on New and then fill in the following details:

  • Name: Kali-Forensic (or name of your choice)
  • Type: Linux
  • Version: Debian (64-bit)

We then click Next and proceed to allocate RAM in the Memory size prompt:

In the preceding Memory size screenshot, we can see the maximum RAM capacity to the right of the screen. The machine I used has 16,384 MB (rounded off to 16 GB) of RAM. Although the recommended memory size for Kali is a meager 1024 MB (1 GB)...