Learning Python for Forensics

Exploring the code

With all introductory concepts covered, let's begin discussing the script that we will develop in this chapter. As always, we begin by importing all necessary modules. We will not repeat the discussion of these modules as they have been covered previously. With these libraries, we will be able to successfully access all of the artifacts required for this collection. Lacking in this script are the author, date, version, and description attributes seen previously. In the case of a malicious script, we do not want to blatantly label it with our details. Let's at least make it a little harder for someone to figure out the culprit, shall we? Although, if you were particularly dastardly, you could label it with someone else's details. ...