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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Perform data acquisition, data recovery, network forensics, and malware analysis with Kali Linux 2019.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838640804
Length 334 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Kali Linux – Not Just for Penetration Testing
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Forensics FREE CHAPTER 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

Image acquisition using DD

Should you also wish to use the DD tool, the commands and usage are very much the same.

You may want to first ensure that you can access the DD tool by running dd –-help. If the dd command cannot be found, update Kali Linux by running the apt-get update command and then running the dd –-help command again:

Figure 5.27 – Output of the dd help command

Attach the storage you wish to acquire. For this example, I'll be using an older 2 GB Sony Pro Duo card that I'd like to image and analyze.

Run the fdisk –l command in the Terminal to view the device details. In the following screenshot, we can see that the device is recognized as /dev/sdb and is 1.89 GB with a default sector size of 512 bytes:

Figure 5.28 – Output of the fdisk -l command

I'll also manually create hashes to verify the integrity of the created images by comparing the hashes of the images with...

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