Digital Forensics & DFIR-focused learner with hands-on experience in forensic analysis, networking, and cryptography.
- Focused on Digital Forensics, Cybercrime investigation, and DFIR
- Hands-on experience solving forensic CTF challenges
- Strong foundation in networking (CIDR, subnetting, traffic understanding)
- Understanding of cryptography (encryption, hashing, decoding)
- Interested in evidence analysis, timeline reconstruction, and incident investigation
- Experience working with low-level data (raw disk, hex, file structures)
- Preparing for eCDFP (Digital Forensics Professional)
- Continuous hands-on practice through CTF challenges
- Disk & file system analysis (partitions, offsets, deleted file recovery)
- Using Sleuth Kit (fls, icat) for forensic investigation
- Memory forensics using Volatility
- Artifact extraction from logs and structured data (e.g., Git)
- File signatures (magic numbers)
- Repairing corrupted files (e.g., JPEG headers)
- Hex-level data analysis
- Extracting hidden data from images
- Using tools like zsteg, binwalk, strings
- Encryption basics (AES, RSA)
- Hashing (MD5, SHA)
- Decoding techniques (Base64, XOR)
- Working with gzip and zlib
- Extracting encoded and compressed data
- Reconstructing activity from fragmented artifacts
- Understanding how data is stored, modified, and recovered
- Focus on reasoning and methodology, not just tool usage
Digital Forensics CTF write-ups:
👉 https://github.com/Manalx0
To develop strong practical expertise in digital forensics and DFIR, and apply it in real-world cybercrime investigation scenarios.