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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Perform data acquisition, digital investigation, and threat analysis using Kali Linux tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625005
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shiva V. N. Parasram Shiva V. N. Parasram
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Preface 1. Introduction to Digital Forensics FREE CHAPTER 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

Downloading test images for use with Volatility


For this chapter, we'll be using a Windows XP image named cridex.vmem, which can be downloaded directly from  https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility/wiki/Memory-Samples.

Select the link with the Description column, Malware - Cridex to download the cridex.vmem image:

Note

There are many other images on this page that are also publicly available for analysis. To practice working with the Volatility Framework and further enhance your analytical skills, you may wish to download as many as you like and use the various plugins available in Volatility.

Image location

As we'll soon see, all plugins in the Volatility Framework are used through the Terminal. To make access to the image file easier by not having to specify a lengthy path to the image, we have moved the cridex.vmem image to the Desktop:

We can also change the directory to the Desktop and then run the Volatility Framework and its plugins from there. To do this, we open a new Terminal...

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