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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)

Additional challenges

This script introduced GUIs and some of the methods available to us via the TkInter module for converting timestamps. This script can be extended in many ways. We recommend the following challenges for those wishing to gain a better understanding of GUI development in Python.

As mentioned in this chapter, we only specify the conversion of three formats that're commonly seen in forensics and use several different methods to provide conversion. Try to add support for the FAT directory timestamp entry into the script, providing conversion into and from the raw format. This script is designed such that adding additional formatters is as simple as defining raw and formatted handlers, adding the labels to our output frame, and appending the method name to convert().

In addition, consider replacing the output labels with entry fields so the user can copy and...