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Practical Windows Forensics

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Practical Windows Forensics

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process. We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Practical Windows Forensics
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About the Authors
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Preface

Linux for the imaging of a hard drive


Suppose that you already have a dead system and you need to take the machine's hard drive out in order to image it. What you need to do first is make sure that you are connecting the hard drive to your preferred Linux machine via write blocker to prevent any accidental writing to the hard drive, which could change the evidence and make it inadmissible.

The dd tool

In the Linux operating system, there is a built-in tool called dd. The dd tool is considered to be a forensically sound tool, as it copies blocks of data, regardless of its structure. There are a lot of suggestions of what dd stands for, but we can say that dd stands for duplicate disk or duplicate data, and if someone used it in wrong way it can be disk destroyer or delete data. This tool can convert and copy files and hard drives.

Suppose the suspicious hard drive, which is the source and is connected by a write blocker, is mounted as /dev/sda and the destination hard drive is mounted as sdb...