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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

Introduction to Autopsy – The Sleuth Kit


Autopsy offers GUI access to a variety of investigative command-line tools from The Sleuth Kit, including file analysis, image and file hashing, deleted file recovery, and case management, among other capabilities. Autopsy can be problematic when installing but, fortunately for us, comes built into Kali Linux, and is also very easy to set up and use.

Although the Autopsy browser is based on The Sleuth Kit, features of Autopsy differ when using the Windows version as compared to the Linux version. Some of the official features offered by The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy 2.4 in Kali Linux include:

  • Image analysis: Analyzing directories and files including sorting files, recovering deleted files, and previewing files
  • File activity timelines: Creating timelines based on timestamps of files when they were written, accessed, and created
  • Image integrity: Creating MD5 hashes of the image file used, as well as individual files
  • Hash databases: Matching digital hashes or...
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