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Hands-On Network Forensics

You're reading from   Hands-On Network Forensics Investigate network attacks and find evidence using common network forensic tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789344523
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Obtaining the Evidence
2. Introducing Network Forensics FREE CHAPTER 3. Technical Concepts and Acquiring Evidence 4. Section 2: The Key Concepts
5. Deep Packet Inspection 6. Statistical Flow Analysis 7. Combatting Tunneling and Encryption 8. Section 3: Conducting Network Forensics
9. Investigating Good, Known, and Ugly Malware 10. Investigating C2 Servers 11. Investigating and Analyzing Logs 12. WLAN Forensics 13. Automated Evidence Aggregation and Analysis 14. Other Books You May Enjoy 15. Assessments

Large-scale data capturing, collection, and indexing

In a large infrastructure environment, capturing, extracting, and storing data becomes a bottleneck at times. In such cases, we can use Moloch, which is a free, open source, large-scale packet-capturing system that allows us to draw intelligence while effectively managing and storing the data:

Moloch packet capturing system

From the preceding screenshot, we can see various stats with respect to the source IP and destination. Expanding the first entry (192.168.0.109 -> 172.217.7,4), we can see plenty of detailed information:

Expanding the first entry (192.168.0.109 -> 172.217.7.4)

We can see we have a much wider view of the details now. Moloch also provides stateful packet inspection view and graph as shown in the following screenshot:

Stateful packet inspection view

We can see that we have data in a segregated...

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