Anti-forensics Techniques

Anti Forensics is a collection of methods and approaches to obstruct and avoid Digital Forensic investigations. For legal purposes, like criminal investigations or civil lawsuits, Digital Forensics includes gathering, preserving, analyzing, and presenting digital evidence. To make it more difficult for Forensic analysts to reconstruct events, assign acts to particular people, or prove guilt or innocence, people or organizations use Anti-Forensic strategies to obfuscate, distort, or delete digital evidence. The chapter presents techniques procedures and countermeasures for digital anti-forensics. The chapter also discusses anti-forensics ethical and legal ramifications.

Keywords: Anti-forensics, Cybercrime, Digital evidence, Digital forensics.