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Learning Python for Forensics - Second Edition

By : Preston Miller, Chapin Bryce
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Learning Python for Forensics - Second Edition

By: Preston Miller, Chapin Bryce

Overview of this book

Digital forensics plays an integral role in solving complex cybercrimes and helping organizations make sense of cybersecurity incidents. This second edition of Learning Python for Forensics illustrates how Python can be used to support these digital investigations and permits the examiner to automate the parsing of forensic artifacts to spend more time examining actionable data. The second edition of Learning Python for Forensics will illustrate how to develop Python scripts using an iterative design. Further, it demonstrates how to leverage the various built-in and community-sourced forensics scripts and libraries available for Python today. This book will help strengthen your analysis skills and efficiency as you creatively solve real-world problems through instruction-based tutorials. By the end of this book, you will build a collection of Python scripts capable of investigating an array of forensic artifacts and master the skills of extracting metadata and parsing complex data structures into actionable reports. Most importantly, you will have developed a foundation upon which to build as you continue to learn Python and enhance your efficacy as an investigator.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

A simple Bitcoin web API

Bitcoin has caught the world by storm and is making headlines; it's the most successful and famous—or infamous, depending on whom you speak to—decentralized cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is regarded as an "anonymous" online cash substitute. SilkRoad, an illegal marketplace on the Tor network, which has been shut down, accepted Bitcoin as payment for illicit goods or services. Since gaining popularity, some websites and brick and mortar stores accept Bitcoins for payment. It has also gained vast public attention for climbing to unforeseen heights as its value rose well above everyone's expectations.

Bitcoin assigns individuals addresses to store their Bitcoins. These users can send or receive Bitcoins by specifying the address they would like to use. In Bitcoin, addresses are represented as 34 case-sensitive alphanumeric characters...