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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
10
Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Write blocking


Once our evidence has been properly documented and collected, we can begin working on acquiring the actual digital evidence. I'll mention this a couple times in an effort to drive home the point, but the original evidence should only be used to create forensic copies or images, which will be discussed further on in this chapter and again in other chapters.

Working on the original evidence can and usually will modify the contents of the medium. For instance, booting a seized laptop into its native OS will allow data to be written to the hard drive and may also erase and modify contents contained in the RAM and paging file.

To prevent this from happening, the use of a write blocker must be employed. Write blockers, as the name suggests, prevent data from being written to the evidence media. Write blockers can be found in both hardware and software types. If a hardware write blocker is not available, software versions are readily available as standalone features in forensic operating...