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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux. Perform data acquisition, digital investigation, and threat analysis using Kali Linux tools

Digital Forensics with Kali Linux. Perform data acquisition, digital investigation, and threat analysis using Kali Linux tools

Shiva V. N. Parasram

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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.

  • 1. Introduction to Digital Forensics
  • 2. Installing Kali Linux
  • 3. Understanding File Systems and Storage Media
  • 4. Incident Response and Data Acquisition
  • 5. Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with DC3DD and Guymager
  • 6. File Recovery and Data Carving with Foremost and Scalpel
  • 7. Live and Memory Forensics with Volatility
  • 8. Autopsy – The Sleuth Kit
  • 9. Network and Internet Capture Analysis with Xplico
  • 10. Collecting, Preserving and Revealing Evidence using DFF
  • Title: Digital Forensics with Kali Linux. Perform data acquisition, digital investigation, and threat analysis using Kali Linux tools
  • Author: Shiva V. N. Parasram
  • Original title: Digital Forensics with Kali Linux. Perform data acquisition, digital investigation, and threat analysis using Kali Linux tools
  • ISBN: 9781788629577, 9781788629577
  • Date of issue: 2017-12-19
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2ach
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing