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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

Using Volatility in Kali Linux


To start the Volatility Framework, click on the All Applications button at the bottom of the sidebar and type volatility in the search bar:

Clicking on the volatility icon starts the program in a Terminal. When Volatility starts, we see that the version being used is 2.6 and also presents us with options for use:

For a complete list of all plugins at your fingertips, open a separate Terminal and run the volatility -h command, rather than having to scroll to the top of the Terminal that you are using to run Volatility plugin commands:

The following screenshot shows a snippet of some of the many plugins within the Volatility Framework:

This list comes in handy when performing analysis as each plugin comes with its own short description. The following screenshot shows a snippet of the help command, which gives a description of the imageinfo plugin:

The format for using plugins in Volatility is:

volatility -f [filename] [plugin] [options]

As seen in the previous section...

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