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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

Installing DFF


To carry out investigations using DFF, we first require the Kali Linux 2016.1 ISO image. I've chosen to use the 64-bit version and also have it running as a virtual host within VirtualBox.

The Kali Linux 2016.1 ISO image can be downloaded from the https://www.kali.org/downloads/:

  1. Once Kali 2016.1 is installed as a virtual host, we can use the uname -a command to view the version details:
  1. To begin installing DFF, we first need to update the sources.list with the repository used in Kali Sana. Although we browsed directly to the sources.list file in the previous chapter, here are two additional ways in which we can also perform this task using the Terminal.

In a new Terminal, we can type the following:

echo "deb http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib" >
 /etc/apt/sources.list

Alternatively, we can instead use the second method by typing the following:

 nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Followed by the details of the repositories:

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main...