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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

Summary


If there was one thing only that I'd like you to take away from this chapter, it would be to remember that the original evidence, particularly hard drives, storage media, and RAM images, should only be used to create forensically-sound Bitstream copies. The original evidence is never to be worked on.

To recap, when a breach is reported, there should be an established first responder who, as per protocol, performs the tasks of documenting and securing the scene as well as collecting and preserving the evidence. The first responder should have a toolkit with various tools and items for the acquisition of evidence, and when handing over the evidence to other parties, ensure that the Chain of Custody is maintained.

We also had a look at the various procedures and best practices when investigating devices that are powered on and powered off, and also discussed the importance of using a write blocker to prevent the original evidence from being tampered with and then using a hashing tool...