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Python Digital Forensics Cookbook

By : Chapin Bryce, Preston Miller
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Python Digital Forensics Cookbook

By: Chapin Bryce, Preston Miller

Overview of this book

Technology plays an increasingly large role in our daily lives and shows no sign of stopping. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that an investigator develops programming expertise to deal with increasingly large datasets. By leveraging the Python recipes explored throughout this book, we make the complex simple, quickly extracting relevant information from large datasets. You will explore, develop, and deploy Python code and libraries to provide meaningful results that can be immediately applied to your investigations. Throughout the Python Digital Forensics Cookbook, recipes include topics such as working with forensic evidence containers, parsing mobile and desktop operating system artifacts, extracting embedded metadata from documents and executables, and identifying indicators of compromise. You will also learn to integrate scripts with Application Program Interfaces (APIs) such as VirusTotal and PassiveTotal, and tools such as Axiom, Cellebrite, and EnCase. By the end of the book, you will have a sound understanding of Python and how you can use it to process artifacts in your investigations.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Ordering Takeout

Recipe Difficulty: Easy

Python Version: N/A

Operating System: Any

Google Mail, popularly known as Gmail, is one of the more widely-used webmail services. Gmail accounts not only function as email addresses, but a gateway into the slew of other services that Google offers. In addition to providing access to mail through the web or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) mail protocols, Google has developed a system for the archival and acquisition of mail and other associated data stored in a Gmail account.

Getting started

This recipe, believe it or not, actually does not involve any Python and instead requires a browser and access to a Google account instead. The purpose of this...