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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

Using DC3DD in Kali Linux


DC3DD was developed by the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center and is updated whenever DD updates. DC3DD offers the best of DD with more features, including:

  • On-the-fly hashing using more algorithm choices (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512)
  • A meter to monitor progress and acquisition time
  • Writing of errors to a file
  • Splitting of output files
  • Verification of files
  • Wiping of output files (pattern wiping)

Note

Although we'll only be looking at DD and DC3DD, there is also another tool called DCFLDD, which can be installed on Linux-based systems. DCFLDD is an enhanced version of DD and is maintained and supported by the Defense Computer Forensics Labs (DCFL) with its own release schedule, unlike DC3DD which updates synchronized with DD.

DC3DD is a CLI and can be easily run in Kali Linux by first opening a Terminal and typing dc3dd. To start with, I recommend using the dc3dd --help command, which lists the available parameters used with dc3dd:

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