You're reading from Digital Forensics and Incident Response Incident response tools and techniques for effective cyber threat response

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238678

Length 532 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Gerard Johansen

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Incident Response FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Managing Cyber Incidents

4. Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Digital Forensics

5. Chapter 4: Investigation Methodology

6. Part 2: Evidence Acquisition

7. Chapter 5: Collecting Network Evidence

8. Chapter 6: Acquiring Host-Based Evidence

9. Chapter 7: Remote Evidence Collection

10. Chapter 8: Forensic Imaging

11. Part 3: Evidence Analysis

12. Chapter 9: Analyzing Network Evidence

13. Chapter 10: Analyzing System Memory

14. Chapter 11: Analyzing System Storage

15. Chapter 12: Analyzing Log Files

16. Chapter 13: Writing the Incident Report

17. Part 4: Ransomware Incident Response

18. Chapter 14: Ransomware Preparation and Response

19. Chapter 15: Ransomware Investigations

20. Part 5: Threat Intelligence and Hunting

21. Chapter 16: Malware Analysis for Incident Response

22. Chapter 17: Leveraging Threat Intelligence

23. Chapter 18: Threat Hunting

24. Assessments

25. Index

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Appendix

Memory analysis tools

Analysts can use several tools to review memory images. Some tools provide a GUI for ease of use, while others operate via the command line, making them useful for scripting. In this chapter, three tools will be examined. The first of these, Mandiant Redline, is a GUI-based memory analysis tool that examines memory images for signs of rogue processes and scores them based on several factors. The second of these tools is Volatility, a command-line tool that allows analysts to drill into the details of the memory image and identify potentially malicious code. The final tool that will be examined is the Strings utility available in Linux. Strings allows keyword searching through GREP, which allows the responder to identify IOCs that may not be readily visible with the other tools.

Memory analysis with Volatility

Volatility is an advanced open source memory forensics framework. The primary tool within the framework is the Volatility Python script, which utilizes...