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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838640804

Length 334 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Shiva V. N. Parasram

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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

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Using Foremost for file recovery and data carving

Foremost is a simple and effective command line interface (CLI) tool that recovers files by reading their headers and footers. We can start foremost by clicking on Applications | 11 - Forensics | foremost:

Figure 6.1 – Foremost in the Kali menu

If foremost is not listed in or installed on your version of Kali Linux, install it by typing sudo apt-get install:

Figure 6.2 – Installing foremost in Kali

Once foremost is successfully started, a Terminal opens, displaying the program version, creators, and some of the many switches for usage:

Figure 6.3 – Foremost help options

To have a better understanding of foremost and the switches used, try browsing the foremost system manager's manual. This can be done by entering the following command: