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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 Foremost for file recovery and data carving


Foremost is a simple and effective CLI tool that recovers files by reading the headers and footers of the files. We can start Foremost by clicking on Applications | 11-Forensics | foremost:

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

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:

man foremost

The syntax for using Foremost is as follows:

foremost -i (forensic image) -o (output folder) -options

In this example, we have specified the 11-carve-fat.dd file located on the desktop as the input file (-i)  and specified an empty folder named Foremost_recovery as the output file (-o). Additionally, other switches can also be specified as needed.

To begin carving the 11-carve-fat.dd image with Foremost, we type the following command in the Terminal...

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