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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

You're reading from  Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625005
Pages 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Introduction to Digital Forensics 2. Installing Kali Linux 3. Understanding Filesystems 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, Scalpel, and Bulk Extractor 7. Memory Forensics with Volatility 8. Autopsy – The Sleuth Kit 9. Network and Internet Capture Analysis with Xplico 10. Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Chapter 5. Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with DC3DD and Guymager

In the previous chapter, we learned that documentation and proper procedures are key in any investigation. These ensure the integrity of the investigation by providing proof of data authenticity and preservation of the original evidence and documentation, which can be used to achieve the same exact results if usage of tools and methods are repeated.

In this chapter, we will demonstrate forensically sound techniques for the acquisition of data using Bitstream copies inclusive of creating data hashes.

The first tool we will use for acquisition is called DC3DD (Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center). DC3DD is a patch of the very popular Data Dump or DD tool, used for forensic acquisition and hashing.

These are the features of Data Dump (DD):

  • Bitstream (raw) disk acquisition and cloning
  • Copying disk partitions
  • Copying folders and files
  • Hard disk drive error checking
  • Forensic wiping of all data on hard disk drives

We will then...

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