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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux - Third Edition

By : Shiva V. N. Parasram
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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux - Third Edition

By: Shiva V. N. Parasram

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a Linux-based distribution that's widely used for penetration testing and digital forensics. This third edition is updated with real-world examples and detailed labs to help you take your investigation skills to the next level using powerful tools. This new edition will help you explore modern techniques for analysis, extraction, and reporting using advanced tools such as FTK Imager, Hex Editor, and Axiom. You’ll cover the basics and advanced areas of digital forensics within the world of modern forensics while delving into the domain of operating systems. As you advance through the chapters, you'll explore various formats for file storage, including secret hiding places unseen by the end user or even the operating system. You’ll also discover how to install Windows Emulator, Autopsy 4 in Kali, and how to use Nmap and NetDiscover to find device types and hosts on a network, along with creating forensic images of data and maintaining integrity using hashing tools. Finally, you'll cover advanced topics such as autopsies and acquiring investigation data from networks, memory, and operating systems. By the end of this digital forensics book, you'll have gained hands-on experience in implementing all the pillars of digital forensics: acquisition, extraction, analysis, and presentation – all using Kali Linux's cutting-edge tools.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Blue and Purple Teaming Fundamentals
7
Part 2: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Fundamentals and Best Practices
10
Part 3: Kali Linux Digital Forensics and Incident Response Tools
15
Part 4: Automated Digital Forensics and Incident Response Suites
18
Part 5: Network Forensic Analysis Tools

Introduction to Autopsy – The Sleuth Kit

In this chapter, we will focus on the Autopsy browser, which is based on data recovery and disk analysis tools found within The Sleuth Kit. Tools in The Sleuth Kit are all command line-based and the Autopsy browser allows us to access the tools and their functionality via a GUI for easy disk and file carving, recovery, analysis, and reporting.

Autopsy offers GUI access to a variety of investigative command-line tools from The Sleuth Kit, including file analysis, image and file hashing, deleted file recovery, and case management, among other capabilities. Autopsy can be a bit tricky to install but, fortunately for us, it comes built into Kali Linux, and is also very easy to set up and use.

Although the Autopsy browser is based on The Sleuth Kit, the features of Autopsy differ when using the Windows version as compared to the Linux version. We will cover the Windows version of Autopsy using Wine in Chapter 13, Performing a Full DFIR...