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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

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Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788625005

Pages 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at forensics using the Autopsy Forensic Browser with The Sleuth Kit. Compared to individual tools, Autopsy has case management features and supports various types of file analysis, searching, and sorting of allocated, unallocated, and hidden files. Autopsy can also perform hashing on a file and directory levels to maintain evidence integrity.

Next up, we have analysis of internet and network artifacts using another very powerful GUI tool called Xplico. See you in Chapter 9, Network and Internet Capture Analysis with Xplico.

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