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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

Drive and partition recognition in Linux


Users new to Kali or any Linux variations may find that the drive and partition recognition and naming in Kali are different to that of Windows devices.

A typical device in Linux can be addressed or recognized as /dev/sda, whereas drives in Windows are usually recognized as Disk 0 and Disk 1, and so on:

  • /dev: Refers to the path of all devices and drives that can be read from or written to, recognized by Linux
  • /sda: Refers to SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface), SATA, and USB devices

The sd stands for SCSI Mass-Storage Driver, with the letter after representing the drive number:

  • sda: Drive 0 or the first drive recognized
  • sdb: The second drive

While Windows recognizes partitions as primary, logical, and extended, Linux partitions are recognized as numbers, after the drive letter:

  • sda1: Partition 1 on the first disk (sda)
  • sda2: Partition 2 on the first disk
  • sdb1: Partition 1 on the second disk (sdb)
  • sdb2: Partition 2 on the second disk

Device identification...