Free hands-on digital forensics labs for students and faculty
Digital Forensics Lab & Shared Cyber Forensic Intelligence Repository
Features of Repository
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- Hands-on Digital Forensics Labs: designed for Students and Faculty
- Linux-based lab: All labs are purely based on Kali Linux
- Lab screenshots: Each lab has PPTs with instruction screenshots
- Comprehensive: Cover many topics in digital forensics
- Free: All tools are open source
- Updated: The project is funded by DOJ and will keep updating
- Two formalized forensic intelligence in JSON files based-on case studies
Table of Contents (updating)
- Basic Computer Skills for Digital Forensics
- Computer and Digital Forensics (updated on Oct. 2021)
- Case Study
- Forensic Intelligence Repository
- Tool Installation
- Tools Used
- Installation PPTs
- Installation Scripts (see commands as follows)
# The following commands will install all tools needed for Data Leakage Case. We will upgrade the script to add more tools for other labs soon. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frankwxu/digital-forensics-lab/main/Help/tool-install-zsh.sh chmod +x tool-install-zsh.sh ./tool-install-zsh.sh
Investigating P2P Data Leakage
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The P2P data leakage case study is to help students to apply various forensic techniques to investigate intellectual property theft involving P2P. The study include
- A large and complex case involving a uTorrent client. The case is similar to NIST data leakage lab. However, it provides a clearer and more detailed timeline.
- Solid evidence with explanations. Each evidence that is associated with each activity is explained along with the timeline. We suggest using this before study NIST data leakage case study.
- 10 hands-on labs/topics in digital forensics
Topics Covered
| Labs | Topics Covered | Size of PPTs |
|---|---|---|
| Lab 0 | Lab Environment Setting Up | 4M |
| Lab 1 | Disk Image and Partitions | 5M |
| Lab 2 | Windows Registry and File Directory | 15M |
| Lab 3 | MFT Timeline | 6M |
| Lab 4 | USN Journal Timeline | 3M |
| Lab 5 | uTorrent Log File | 9M |
| Lab 6 | File Signature | 8M |
| Lab 7 | Emails | 9M |
| Lab 8 | Web History | 11M |
| Lab 9 | Website Analysis | 2M |
| Lab 10 | Timeline (Summary) | 13K |
Investigating NIST Data Leakage
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The case study is to investigate an image involving intellectual property theft. The study include
- A large and complex case study created by NIST. You can access the Senario, DD/Encase images. You can also find the solutions on their website.
- 13 hands-on labs/topics in digital forensics
Topics Covered
| Labs | Topics Covered | Size of PPTs |
|---|---|---|
| Lab 0 | Environment Setting Up | 2M |
| Lab 1 | Windows Registry | 3M |
| Lab 2 | Windows Event and XML | 3M |
| Lab 3 | Web History and SQL | 3M |
| Lab 4 | Email Investigation | 3M |
| Lab 5 | File Change History and USN Journal | 2M |
| Lab 6 | Network Evidence and shellbag | 2M |
| Lab 7 | Network Drive and Windows shellbag | 5M |
| Lab 8 | Master File Table ($MFT) Analysis | 4M |
| Lab 9 | Windows Search History | 4M |
| Lab 10 | Windows Volume Shadow Copy Analysis | 6M |
| Lab 11 | Data Carving | 3M |
| Lab 12 | Crack Windows Passwords | 2M |
Investigating Illegal Possession of Images
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The case study is to investigate the illegal possession of Rhino images. This image was contributed by Dr. Golden G. Richard III, and was originally used in the DFRWS 2005 RODEO CHALLENGE. NIST hosts the USB DD image. A copy of the image is also available in the repository.
Topics Covered
| Labs | Topics Covered | Size of PPTs |
|---|---|---|
| Lab 0 | HTTP Analysis using Wireshark (text) | 3M |
| Lab 1 | HTTP Analysis using Wireshark (image) | 6M |
| Lab 2 | Rhion Possession Investigation 1: File recovering | 9M |
| Lab 3 | Rhion Possession Investigation 2: Steganography | 4M |
| Lab 4 | Rhion Possession Investigation 3: Extract Evidence from FTP Traffic | 3M |
| Lab 5 | Rhion Possession Investigation 4: Extract Evidence from HTTP Traffic | 5M |
Investigating Email Harassment
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The case study is to investigate the harassment email sent by a student to a faculty member. The case is hosted by digitalcorpora.org. You can access the senario description and network traffic from their website. The repository only provides lab instructions.
Topics Covered
| Labs | Topics Covered | Size of PPTs |
|---|---|---|
| Lab 0 | Investigating Harassment Email using Wireshark | 3M |
| Lab 1 | t-shark Forensic Introduction | 2M |
| Lab 2 | Investigating Harassment Email using t-shark | 2M |
Investigating Illegal File Transferring
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The case study is to investigate computer memory for reconstructing a timeline of illegal data transferring. The case includes a scenario of transfer sensitive files from a server to a USB.
Topics Covered
| Labs | Topics Covered | Size of PPTs |
|---|---|---|
| Lab 0 | Memory Forensics | 11M |
| part 1 | Understand the Suspect and Accounts | |
| part 2 | Understand the Suspect’s PC | |
| part 3 | Network Forensics | |
| part 4 | Investigate Command History | |
| part 5 | Investigate Suspect’s USB | |
| part 6 | Investigate Internet Explorer History | |
| part 7 | Investigate File Explorer History | |
| part 8 | Timeline Analysis |
Investigating Hacking Case
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The case study, including a disk image provided by NIST is to investigate a hacker who intercepts internet traffic within range of Wireless Access Points. Note that the PPT is encrypted with a password as one of the major assignments. Email fxu at ubalt dot edu to ask the password if you are a faculty member.
Topics Covered
| Labs | Topics Covered | Size of PPTs |
|---|---|---|
| Lab 0 | Memory Forensics | 8M |
Tools Used
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Contribution
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- Frank Xu
- Malcolm Hayward
- Richard (Max) Wheeless