You're reading from Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Enhance your investigation skills by performing network and memory forensics with Kali Linux 2022.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635153

Length 414 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Shiva V. N. Parasram

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Blue and Purple Teaming Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Red, Blue, and Purple Teaming Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Digital Forensics

4. Chapter 3: Installing Kali Linux

5. Chapter 4: Additional Kali Installations and Post-Installation Tasks

6. Chapter 5: Installing Wine in Kali Linux

7. Part 2: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Fundamentals and Best Practices

8. Chapter 6: Understanding File Systems and Storage

9. Chapter 7: Incident Response, Data Acquisitions, and DFIR Frameworks

10. Part 3: Kali Linux Digital Forensics and Incident Response Tools

11. Chapter 8: Evidence Acquisition Tools

12. Chapter 9: File Recovery and Data Carving Tools

13. Chapter 10: Memory Forensics and Analysis with Volatility 3

14. Chapter 11: Artifact, Malware, and Ransomware Analysis

15. Part 4: Automated Digital Forensics and Incident Response Suites

16. Chapter 12: Autopsy Forensic Browser

17. Chapter 13: Performing a Full DFIR Analysis with the Autopsy 4 GUI

18. Part 5: Network Forensic Analysis Tools

19. Chapter 14: Network Discovery Tools

20. Chapter 15: Packet Capture Analysis with Xplico

21. Chapter 16: Network Forensic Analysis Tools

22. Index

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Data imaging and maintaining evidence integrity

Imaging refers to the exact copying of data either as a file, folder, partition, or entire storage media or drive. When doing a regular copy of files and folders, not all files may be copied based on their attributes being set to the system or even hidden. To prevent files from being left out, we perform a special type of copy where every bit is copied or imaged exactly as it is on the current medium as if taking a picture or snapshot of the data.

Creating a copy of each bit of data exactly as is, is referred to as a physical or forensic image. Performing a bitstream copy ensures the integrity of the copy. To further prove this, hashing of the original evidence and the physical image is calculated and compared (which we will delve into shortly). If the forensic copy is off by even one bit of data, the hash values created by the respective algorithms will be quite different.

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