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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've looked at two tools readily available in Kali Linux for the acquisition of digital evidence. It's very important to be able to tell your devices apart so you can accurately acquire a forensic and exact copy or image of the evidence file using the fdisk -l command. For forensic analysis, Bitstream copies of the evidence are needed as these provide an exact copy of the evidence, bit-by-bit, which is why we used DC3DD and Guymager.

Firstly, we used DC3DD, the enhancement of the data dump tool, and through the Terminal, performed quite a few tasks including device imaging, hashing, splitting of files, and file verification. Although DC3DD is a command-line interface program, the options remain the same, making it fairly easy to learn and use.

Our second tool, Guymager, has built-in case-management abilities and also has many functional similarities to DC3DD, but it comes as a GUI tool and may be easier to use.

Both tools deliver accurate and forensically sound results...