Forensics

objdump is a command line tool that can be used to gain insight into an executable binary. In this article, the tool will be used to dump all of the headers of the ELF binary heapedit with the command below. Then, we will analyze and explain each section of output from the top to the bottom. objdump -x ./heapedit Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files are a common file format for object files, executable binaries, core dumps, and shared libraries....

Computer Forensics for File Recovery https://edgy.app/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/dataleakhackerGorodenkoff-970x546.jpg Introduction When a file is “deleted”, its contents aren’t typically erased from the storage device that it was stored on. More often than not, the blocks that stored the file are marked as unallocated and the filesystem pointers are removed from it. The implication is that the file still exists on the disk until it is overwritten. There are many methods to recovering the raw, unallocated data....