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Python Digital Forensics Cookbook

By : Chapin Bryce, Preston Miller
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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)

Viewing MSG files

Recipe Difficulty: Easy

Python Version: 2.7 or 3.5

Operating System: Windows

Email messages can come in many different formats. The MSG format is another popular container for storing message content and attachments. In this example, we will learn to parse MSG files using the Outlook API.

Getting started

This recipe requires the installation of the third-party library pywin32. This means the script will only be compatible on Windows systems. We will also need to install pywin32, as we did in Chapter 1, Essential Scripting and File Information Recipes.

To install pywin32, we need to access its SourceForge page at https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ and download the version that matches your Python installation...