Practical Digital Forensics: Forensic Lab Setup, Evidence Analysis, and Structured Investigation Across Windows, Mobile, Browser, HDD, and Memory
- Length: 300 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: BPB Publications
- Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- ISBN-10: 9355511450
- ISBN-13: 9789355511454
- Sales Rank: #552254 (See Top 100 Books)
A Guide to Enter the Journey of a Digital Forensic Investigator
Key Features
- Provides hands-on training in a forensics lab, allowing learners to conduct their investigations and analysis.
- Covers a wide range of forensics topics such as web, email, RAM, and mobile devices.
- Establishes a solid groundwork in digital forensics basics including evidence-gathering tools and methods.
Description
Forensics offers every IT and computer professional a wide opportunity of exciting and lucrative career. This book is a treasure trove of practical knowledge for anyone interested in forensics, including where to seek evidence and how to extract it from buried digital spaces.
The book begins with the exploration of Digital Forensics with a brief overview of the field’s most basic definitions, terms, and concepts about scientific investigations. The book lays down the groundwork for how digital forensics works and explains its primary objectives, including collecting, acquiring, and analyzing digital evidence. This book focuses on starting from the essentials of forensics and then practicing the primary tasks and activities that forensic analysts and investigators execute for every security incident. This book will provide you with the technical abilities necessary for Digital Forensics, from the ground up, in the form of stories, hints, notes, and links to further reading.
Towards the end, you’ll also have the opportunity to build up your lab, complete with detailed instructions and a wide range of forensics tools, in which you may put your newly acquired knowledge to the test.
What you will learn
- Get familiar with the processes and procedures involved in establishing your own in-house digital forensics lab.
- Become confident in acquiring and analyzing data from RAM, HDD, and SSD.
- In-detail windows forensics and analyzing deleted files, USB, and IoT firmware.
- Get acquainted with email investigation, browser forensics, and different tools to collect the evidence.
- Develop proficiency with anti-forensic methods, including metadata manipulation, password cracking, and steganography.
Who this book is for
Anyone working as a forensic analyst, forensic investigator, forensic specialist, network administrator, security engineer, cybersecurity analyst, or application engineer will benefit from reading this book. You only need a foundational knowledge of networking and hardware to get started with this book.
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page About the Authors About the Reviewer Acknowledgement Preface Errata Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Digital Forensics Introduction Structure Objectives Defining digital forensics Digital forensics goals Defining cybercrime Sources of cybercrime Computers in cybercrimes Digital forensics categories Computer forensics Mobile forensics Network forensics Database forensics Forensic data analysis Digital forensics users Law enforcement Civil ligation Intelligence and counterintelligence Digital forensics investigation types Forensics readiness Type of digital evidence User-created data Machine and network-created data Locations of electronic evidence Chain of custody Examination process Seizure Acquisition Analysis Reporting Conclusion Multiple choice questions/questions Learning Section Answers 2. Essential Technical Concepts Introduction Structure Objectives Decimal (Base-10) Binary Hexadecimal (Base-16) Hexadecimal (Base-64) Character encoding schema File carving File structure Digital file metadata Timestamps decoder Hash analysis Calculate file hash System memory Types of computer memory storage Primary storage RAM ROM Secondary storage Backup storage HDD Hard disk storage SSD DCO and HPA Considerations for data recovery File system NTFS FAT Environment for computing Cloud computing Software as a service (SaaS) Platform as a service (SaaS) Infrastructure as a service (SaaS) Windows versions Internet protocol (IP) address Getting an IP address Conclusion 3. Hard Disks and File Systems Introduction Structure Objectives Hard disk and file systems File systems Hard disk Hard disk forensics Analyzing the registry files Conclusion 4. Requirements for a Computer Forensics Lab Introduction Structure Objectives Digital Forensic Lab Physical requirements Environment controls Digital forensic equipment Forensic hardware Office electrical equipment Networked devices Forensic workstation Commercial digital forensic workstations Forensic software applications Commercial forensics tools Open-source forensic tools Linux distributions Virtualization Lab information management system (LIMS) Lab policies and procedures Documentation Lab accreditation Conclusion 5. Acquiring Digital Evidence Introduction Structure Objectives Raw format Advanced forensic format EnCase: Expert witness transfers Other file formats Validation of forensic imaging files Live memory acquisition Virtual memory: Swap space Challenges acquiring RAM Administration privilege Live RAM capturer Magnet RAM capture FTK imager Acquiring nonvolatile memory Hard disk acquisition Acquiring physical resources Logical acquisition Sparse acquisition Capturing hard drives using FTK imager Network acquisition Limitations of a forensic tool Conclusion 6. Analysis of Digital Evidence Introduction Structure Objectives Arsenal Image Mounter OSFMount Autopsy Analyzing RAM forensic image Memoryze Redline Volatility framework Conclusion 7. Windows Forensic Analysis Introduction Structure Timeline analysis tools File recovery Undeleting files Recycle bin forensics Data carving Associated user account action Windows registry analysis Windows registry architecture Acquiring windows registry Registry examination Windows registry program keys USB device forensics Most recently used list Network analysis Windows shutdown time UserAssist forensics Printer registry information File format identification Windows thumbnail forensics Windows 10 forensics Notification area database Cortana forensics Conclusion 8. Web Browser and E-mail Forensics Introduction Structure Objectives Web browser forensics Google chrome browser forensics Top sites and shortcuts Login data Web data Bookmarks Bookmarks.bak Cache folder Mozilla Firefox Browser Forensics Microsoft Edge browser forensics Other Web browser investigation tools Conclusion References 9. E-mail Forensics Introduction Structure Objectives E-mails around us E-mail communication steps E-mail protocols Examine e-mail headers Reveal header information View Gmail headers View Outlook mail header View Mozilla Thunderbird headers View Outlook mail client header Analyzing e-mail headers Determine the sender’s geolocation and time zone Conclusion 10. Anti-Forensics Techniques and Report Writing Introduction Structure Objectives Anti-forensics techniques Digital Steganography Text Steganography Image Steganography Audio-video Steganography Network Steganography Metadata manipulation Encryption techniques Disk encryption using open-source tools Anonymity techniques Digital forensic reports Conclusion 11. Hands-on Lab Practical Introduction Lab 1: FTK imager Lab 2: Magnet RAM capture Lab 3: Memory forensics Lab 4: Malware analysis Lab 5: data hiding—Steganography Lab 6: Recovering deleted files Lab 7: Finding key evidence Lab 8: Analyzing the registry for evidence Lab 9: Analyzing Windows pre-fetch files for evidence Lab 10: Browser forensics Lab 11: Extracting EXIF data from graphics files Index
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