FCM 753 Digital Forensic AN OVERVIEW

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Executive summary:
The purpose of this report is to discuss about digital forensic. The digital forensic helps in
designing processes at a suspected scene of crime that helps to make sure that the digital
evidences got is nor corrupted. It also helps in generating a report of computer forensics that
provides an entire report on the procedure of investigation. The police have made an arrest as
well as they secured a search warrant for the home of the suspect. At the time of executing
the warrant, the police have investigated that a there is an image file of computer storage
which may contain lot of information. Autopsy will be used for investigating the image file.

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Table of Contents
Introduction and Background:....................................................................................................3
Digital forensic:..........................................................................................................................3
Importance of digital forensic:...................................................................................................4
Collection summary:..................................................................................................................4
Investigation report:...................................................................................................................8
Conclusion:............................................................................................................................344
Timeline:................................................................................................................................345
Tool used:...............................................................................................................................346
References:.............................................................................................................................347

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Introduction and Background:
The purpose of this report is to discuss about the digital forensic. Digital forensics is
defined as the procedure of preservation, recognising, extraction and the documentation of
evidences of computer that can be utilised by the court of law. The police have made an arrest
as well as they secured a search warrant for the home of the suspect. At the time of executing
the warrant, the police have investigated that a there is an image file of computer storage
which may contain lot of information. It is a science of discovering the evidences from the
media those are digital like mobile phones, computer, network or a server. It offers the team
of forensic with the best methods and tools in order to resolve the complex cases those are
related to digital. Digital forensics assists the team of forensic to evaluates, inspects
recognises and preserves the evidences those are digital present on the different types of
electronic devices. In this report the Autopsy tool will be used for investigating the forensic
image file.
Digital forensic:
There are various procedures of performing the digital forensics. They are
Identification, Preservation, Evaluation, Documentation and Presentation.
There are mainly three kinds of digital forensics. These include the following:
 Disk forensics
 Network forensics
 Wireless forensics
There are major challenges those are faced by digital forensics. These include:
 The increase is the number of personal computers and maximized use of internet
 Easy availability of tools of hacking

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 It helps various companies to capture essential information if their systems of
computer or the networks are compromised
 It efficiently tracks down the cyber criminals
 It assists in order to protect the money of the organization and the time of the
organization.
 It permit to extract, process and then interpret the evidences those are factual so that it
can prove the actions of cyber criminals in the court.
Importance of digital forensic:
The important objectives of utilising computer forensics are as follows:
 It assists to find out the motive that is behind the crime and find the main culprit.
 Designing processes at a suspected scene of crime that helps to make sure that the
digital evidences got is nor corrupted
 Generating a report of computer forensics that provides an entire report on the
procedure of investigation.
 Preserving the evidences by following the custody chain
 Acquisition and duplication of data. recovering the files and the partitions those are
deleted from the digital media in order to extract the evidences and then authenticate
them.
Collection summary:
After investigation a lot of evidences has been found in the disk image file. They are
as follows:
Badguy image:

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Hash value:
MD5 SHA1
36989b20f73621372fda4ab5bdcca0b
e
82294085f8f5f17f4857c5ebcf292de6b8c542f
0
Image files: