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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

Forensic test images used in Foremost and Scalpel


For this tool, a digital forensic tool testing image, created by Nick Micus, specifically for testing data carving tools, was used. One of the main reasons for choosing this particular image for this exercise is that Nick Mikus is listed as one of the contributing developers of Foremost. As seen in the first line of Foremost, which displays the version number alongside authors Jesse Kornblum and Kris Kendall. The image can be downloaded freely at http://dftt.sourceforge.net/test11/index.html.

Once you've become familiar with this exercise, you can try extracting data from other images also available on that site at http://dftt.sourceforge.net/.