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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

By : Gerard Johansen
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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

By: Gerard Johansen

Overview of this book

Digital Forensics and Incident Response will guide you through the entire spectrum of tasks associated with incident response, starting with preparatory activities associated with creating an incident response plan and creating a digital forensics capability within your own organization. You will then begin a detailed examination of digital forensic techniques including acquiring evidence, examining volatile memory, hard drive assessment, and network-based evidence. You will also explore the role that threat intelligence plays in the incident response process. Finally, a detailed section on preparing reports will help you prepare a written report for use either internally or in a courtroom. By the end of the book, you will have mastered forensic techniques and incident response and you will have a solid foundation on which to increase your ability to investigate such incidents in your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Memory analysis


As the necessity for analyzing the memory of systems has increased, there are several tools that analysts have at their disposal. This chapter will focus on three such tools; all of them are either open source or freeware and can be deployed easily. These tools allow analysts to gain critical insight into the activity of exploits and malware that have impacted a system.

Note

Throughout this chapter, a memory capture will be utilized. This memory capture is from a Windows system that has been infected by the Stuxnet virus. The memory image can be downloaded from the following site: jonrajewski.com/data/Malware/stuxnet.vmem.zip.

Memory analysis methodology

When examining system memory, it is advisable for analysts to follow a methodology. This ensures that all potential evidence is uncovered and can be utilized in an incident investigation. There are a variety of methodologies that can be leveraged. Which specific methodology that is used can often be dependent on the type of incident...