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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

Using Volatility in Kali Linux


To start the Volatility Framework, click on the All Applications button at the bottom of the sidebar and type volatility in the search bar:

Clicking on the volatility icon starts the program in a Terminal. When Volatility starts, we see that the version being used is 2.6 and also presents us with options for use:

For a complete list of all plugins at your fingertips, open a separate Terminal and run the volatility -h command, rather than having to scroll to the top of the Terminal that you are using to run Volatility plugin commands:

The following screenshot shows a snippet of some of the many plugins within the Volatility Framework:

This list comes in handy when performing analysis as each plugin comes with its own short description. The following screenshot shows a snippet of the help command, which gives a description of the imageinfo plugin:

The format for using plugins in Volatility is:

volatility -f [filename] [plugin] [options]

As seen in the previous section...