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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

Using DC3DD in Kali Linux


DC3DD was developed by the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center and is updated whenever DD updates. DC3DD offers the best of DD with more features, including:

  • On-the-fly hashing using more algorithm choices (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512)
  • A meter to monitor progress and acquisition time
  • Writing of errors to a file
  • Splitting of output files
  • Verification of files
  • Wiping of output files (pattern wiping)

Note

Although we'll only be looking at DD and DC3DD, there is also another tool called DCFLDD, which can be installed on Linux-based systems. DCFLDD is an enhanced version of DD and is maintained and supported by the Defense Computer Forensics Labs (DCFL) with its own release schedule, unlike DC3DD which updates synchronized with DD.

DC3DD is a CLI and can be easily run in Kali Linux by first opening a Terminal and typing dc3dd. To start with, I recommend using the dc3dd --help command, which lists the available parameters used with dc3dd:

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