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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

Chapter 9. Network and Internet Capture Analysis with Xplico

Xplico is an open source, GUI Network Forensics Analysis Tool (NFAT) that focuses on extracting artifacts from network and internet captures.

Captures of network and internet traffic are obtained directly in Xplico using its live acquisition feature but can also be done using tools within Kali Linux such as Wireshark and Ettercap. These network acquisition files are saved as .pcap or packet capture files that are then uploaded to Xplico and decoded automatically using its IP decoder and decoder manager components.

Some of the protocols that we can investigate using Xplico include, but are not limited to:

  • Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
  • User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • Trivial FTP (TFTP)
  • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
  • Post Office Protocol (POP)
  • Internet Map Access Protocol (IMAP)
  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

Data contained in network and internet packet captures, and...