Forensics & Password Cracking

Forensics involves investigating data (disk images, network captures) to find hidden pieces of information.

Digital Forensics

• HTB Academy: Intro to Digital Forensics
• Volatility Memory Analysis Cheat Sheet
  • Essential commands for analyzing RAM dumps.
• Autopsy
  • The primary GUI tool for disk and file system forensics.
• Hexed.it
  • A powerful, web-based hex editor for inspecting file headers and signatures.

Password Cracking

• HTB Academy: Cracking Passwords with Hashcat
• hashes.com
  • A lookup table for already-cracked hashes.
• CrackStation
  • Another massive lookup table for common hash types.