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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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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

Bulk_extractor


Bulk_extractor is the third and final tool that we'll cover in this chapter. Foremost and Scalpel, as we've seen so far, are quite impressive at file recovery and carving, but are limited to specific file types. For further extraction of data, we can use Bulk Extractor.

While Foremost and Scalpel can recover images, audio, video, and compressed files, Bulk Extractor extracts several additional types of information that can be very useful in investigations.

Although Bulk Extractor is quite capable of recovering and carving image, video, and document type files, other data that can be carved and extracted by Bulk Extractor includes:

  • Credit card numbers
  • Email addresses
  • URLs
  • Online searches
  • Website information
  • Social media profiles and information

Forensic test image for Bulk_extractor

For this example, we will work with a freely-available evidence file named terry-work-usb-2009-12-11.E01.

This file can be downloaded directly from the digital corpora website which allows the use of forensic...

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