Chapter 14 Memory and incident response system commands

DOI: 10.1201/9781003134817-14

Rekall (http://www.rekall-forensic.com/home) is a forensic and incident response framework. Initially it was pure memory forensics but has moved forward since that time.

File headers can be used for file identification by examining the first 4 or 5 bytes of this hexadecimal string:

Grep and egrep can be used to extract information from text files.

Example: grep <keyword> <filename>

Example: grep “Bruce Middleton” phonebook

Example: egrep “Middleton | Hughes” phonebook

Some useful flags to be used with grep / egrep are as follows:

Now let’s say we want to ...

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