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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838640804
Pages 334 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shiva V. N. Parasram Shiva V. N. Parasram
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Shiva V. N. Parasram is a cybersecurity and risk consultant with over 19 years of experience and is the executive director of the Computer Forensics and Security Institute (CFSI), which specializes in pentesting, Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), and advanced security training with a global reach. As the only Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI) in the Caribbean, he has trained thousands and is the founder of the CFSI CyberFence program. Shiva is also the author of three other books from Packt Publishing and has delivered workshops regionally and globally for ISACA, ISC2, universities, and security agencies. He is also a Security Risk Manager Consultant for PTRMS (Canada) positioned within a global financial institution, and a cybersecurity mentor at Springboard (US).
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Kali Linux – Not Just for Penetration Testing
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Forensics 3. Chapter 2: Installing Kali Linux 4. Section 2: Forensic Fundamentals and Best Practices
5. Chapter 3: Understanding Filesystems and Storage Media 6. Chapter 4: Incident Response and Data Acquisition 7. Section 3: Forensic Tools in Kali Linux
8. Chapter 5: Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with dc3dd and Guymager 9. Chapter 6: File Recovery and Data Carving with foremost, Scalpel, and bulk_extractor 10. Chapter 7: Memory Forensics with Volatility 11. Chapter 8: Artifact Analysis 12. Section 4: Automated Digital Forensic Suites
13. Chapter 9: Autopsy 14. Chapter 10: Analysis with Xplico 15. Chapter 11: Network Analysis 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Identifying devices and operating systems with p0f

If you're using the VirtualBox version of Kali 2019.3 (kali-linux-2019.3a-vbox-amd64.ova), you may have to install p0f by typing in apt-install get p0f. If you're using the Kali 2019.3 Large.iso image, it should come preinstalled.

You may also use the help option within p0f to verify that it is installed on your system by typing p0f –h. This displays the network interface options, operating mode, output settings, and performance-related options:

Figure 8.1 – p0f help options

Once verified, we can run the p0f command without additional switches or options by typing in p0f, which runs the tool against our machine. In this scenario, my IP address is 172.16.77.159:

  1. Typing in the p0f command starts the fingerprint process. It may look like the tool has stopped but give it a couple of minutes to perform the scan and display the output:

    Figure 8.2 – Starting p0f in Kali

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Profile icon Shiva V. N. Parasram
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Shiva V. N. Parasram is a cybersecurity and risk consultant with over 19 years of experience and is the executive director of the Computer Forensics and Security Institute (CFSI), which specializes in pentesting, Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), and advanced security training with a global reach. As the only Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI) in the Caribbean, he has trained thousands and is the founder of the CFSI CyberFence program. Shiva is also the author of three other books from Packt Publishing and has delivered workshops regionally and globally for ISACA, ISC2, universities, and security agencies. He is also a Security Risk Manager Consultant for PTRMS (Canada) positioned within a global financial institution, and a cybersecurity mentor at Springboard (US).
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