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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

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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

Data imaging and hashing


Imaging refers to the exact copying of data either as a file, folder, partition, or entire storage media or drive. When doing a regular copy of files and folders, not all files may be copied based on their attributes being set to the system or even hidden. To prevent files from being left out, we perform a special type of copy where every bit is copied or imaged exactly as it is on the current medium, as if taking a picture or snapshot of the data.

Creating a copy of each bit of data exactly as is, is referred to as a Physical Image. Performing a Bitstream copy ensures the integrity of the copy. To further prove this, a hash of the original evidence and the physical image are calculated and compared. If the copy is off by even one bit of data, the hash values will be quite different.

Note

The original evidence should only be handled by qualified and authorized professionals and should also only be used to create forensically sound physical images. The original evidence...

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