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Key Features
  • Develop code that extracts vital information from everyday forensic acquisitions.
  • Increase the quality and efficiency of your forensic analysis.
  • Leverage the latest resources and capabilities available to the forensic community.
Book Description

Technology plays an increasingly large role in our daily lives and shows no sign of stopping. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that an investigator develops programming expertise to deal with increasingly large datasets.

By leveraging the Python recipes explored throughout this book, we make the complex simple, quickly extracting relevant information from large datasets. You will explore, develop, and deploy Python code and libraries to provide meaningful results that can be immediately applied to your investigations. Throughout the Python Digital Forensics Cookbook, recipes include topics such as working with forensic evidence containers, parsing mobile and desktop operating system artifacts, extracting embedded metadata from documents and executables, and identifying indicators of compromise. You will also learn to integrate scripts with Application Program Interfaces (APIs) such as VirusTotal and PassiveTotal, and tools such as Axiom, Cellebrite, and EnCase.

By the end of the book, you will have a sound understanding of Python and how you can use it to process artifacts in your investigations.

What you will learn
  • Understand how Python can enhance digital forensics and investigations
  • Learn to access the contents of, and process, forensic evidence containers
  • Explore malware through automated static analysis
  • Extract and review message contents from a variety of email formats

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Python Digital Forensics Cookbook
Effective Python recipes for digital investigations
Preston Miller
Chapin Bryce
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Python Digital Forensics Cookbook

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Chapin Bryce

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About the Authors

Preston Miller is a consultant at an internationally recognized risk management firm. He holds an undergraduate degree from Vassar College and a masters degree in Digital Forensics from Marshall University. While at Marshall, Preston unanimously received the prestigious J. Edgar Hoover Foundations Scientific Scholarship. He is a published author, recently of Learning Python for Forensics, an introductory Python Forensics textbook. Preston is also a member of the GIAC advisory board and holds multiple industry-recognized certifications in his field.

Chapin Bryce works as a consultant in digital forensics, focusing on litigation support, incident response, and intellectual property investigations. After studying computer and digital forensics at Champlain College, he joined a firm leading the field of digital forensics and investigations. In his downtime, Chapin enjoys working on side projects, hiking, and skiing (if the weather permits). As a member of multiple ongoing research and development projects, he has authored several articles in professional and academic publications.

About the Reviewer

Dr. Michael Spreitzenbarth, a fter finishing his diploma thesis with the major topic of mobile phone forensics, worked as a freelancer in the IT security sector for several years . In 2013, he finished his PhD at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in the field of Android forensics and mobile malware analysis. Since then, he has been working as a team lead in an internationally operating CERT.

Dr. Michael Spreitzenbarth's daily work deals with the security of mobile systems, forensic analysis of smartphones and suspicious mobile applications, as well as the investigation of security-related incidents within ICS environments. At the same time he is working on the improvement of mobile malware analysis techniques and research in the field of Android and iOS forensics as well as mobile application testing.

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To my mother, Mary, whose love, courage, and guidance have had an indelible impact on me.
I love you very much.
Preston Miller
This book is dedicated to the love of my life and my best friend, Alexa.
Thank you for all of the love, support, and laughter.
Chapin Bryce
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Preface

At the outset of this book, we strove to demonstrate a nearly endless corpus of use cases for Python in todays digital investigations. Technology plays an increasingly large role in our daily life and shows no signs of stopping. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that an investigator develop programming expertise to work with increasingly large datasets. By leveraging the Python recipes explored throughout this book, we make the complex simple, efficiently extracting relevant information from large data sets. You will explore, develop, and deploy Python code and libraries to provide meaningful results that can be immediately applied to your investigations.

Throughout the book, recipes include topics such as working with forensic evidence containers, parsing mobile and desktop operating system artifacts, extracting embedded metadata from documents and executables, and identifying indicators of compromise. You will also learn how to integrate scripts with Application Program Interfaces (APIs) such as VirusTotal and PassiveTotal, and tools, such as Axiom, Cellebrite, and EnCase. By the end of the book, you will have a sound understanding of Python and will know how you can use it to process artifacts in your investigations.

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