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Python Digital Forensics Cookbook

By : Chapin Bryce, Preston Miller
Book Image

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)

A sticky situation

Recipe difficulty: Medium

Python version: 2.7

Operating system: Linux

Computers have replaced pen and paper. We have transferred many processes and habits, one relegated solely to the confines of paper, to these machines, including taking notes and making lists. One feature that replicates a real-world habit is Windows Sticky Notes. These sticky notes allow persistent notes to float on the desktop, with options for color, fonts, and more. This recipe will allow us to explore these sticky notes and add them to our investigative workflow.

Getting started

This recipe requires the installation of four third-party modules to function: olefile, pytsk3, pyewf, and unicodecsv. Refer to Chapter 8, Working with Forensic...