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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)

Integrating our metadata extractor with EnCase

Recipe Difficulty: Medium

Python Version: 2.7 or 3.5

Operating System: Windows

The embedded metadata extracting recipes we have designed work against loose files, not with files found within a forensic image. Annoyingly, this adds an extra step in our process, requiring us to export the files of interest from the image for this type of review. We show in this recipe, how to connect our scripts to a forensic tool, EnCase, and execute them without needing to export the files from a forensic image.

Getting started

With EnCase installed, we need to create a case and add in the evidence file, as we would for any other case. This recipe demonstrates the steps required to perform this...