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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

Downloading test images for use with Volatility


For this chapter, we'll be using a Windows XP image named cridex.vmem, which can be downloaded directly from  https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility/wiki/Memory-Samples.

Select the link with the Description column, Malware - Cridex to download the cridex.vmem image:

Note

There are many other images on this page that are also publicly available for analysis. To practice working with the Volatility Framework and further enhance your analytical skills, you may wish to download as many as you like and use the various plugins available in Volatility.

Image location

As we'll soon see, all plugins in the Volatility Framework are used through the Terminal. To make access to the image file easier by not having to specify a lengthy path to the image, we have moved the cridex.vmem image to the Desktop:

We can also change the directory to the Desktop and then run the Volatility Framework and its plugins from there. To do this, we open a new Terminal...