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Learn Computer Forensics

By : William Oettinger
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Learn Computer Forensics

By: William Oettinger

Overview of this book

A computer forensics investigator must possess a variety of skills, including the ability to answer legal questions, gather and document evidence, and prepare for an investigation. This book will help you get up and running with using digital forensic tools and techniques to investigate cybercrimes successfully. Starting with an overview of forensics and all the open source and commercial tools needed to get the job done, you'll learn core forensic practices for searching databases and analyzing data over networks, personal devices, and web applications. You'll then learn how to acquire valuable information from different places, such as filesystems, e-mails, browser histories, and search queries, and capture data remotely. As you advance, this book will guide you through implementing forensic techniques on multiple platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and macOS, to demonstrate how to recover valuable information as evidence. Finally, you'll get to grips with presenting your findings efficiently in judicial or administrative proceedings. By the end of this book, you'll have developed a clear understanding of how to acquire, analyze, and present digital evidence like a proficient computer forensics investigator.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Acquiring Evidence
6
Section 2: Investigation
12
Section 3: Reporting

Chapter 7: RAM Memory Forensic Analysis

RAM is a vital source of digital evidence that, historically, has been neglected and ignored. As our knowledge of digital evidence grew, examiners began to realize the source of potential digital evidence that existed in RAM. Ultimately, you have an additional multi-gigabyte source of information that needs to be examined and may contain digital artifacts that do not exist in the traditional locations of the system.

In this chapter, we will cover the fundamentals of memory. We will then look at the different sources of memory and learn to capture RAM using RAM capture tools. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to understand the various methods and tools that can process volatile memory.

We'll be covering the following topics in this chapter:

  • Fundamentals of memory
  • Random access memory
  • Identifying sources of memory
  • Capturing RAM
  • Exploring RAM analyzing tools