Course Curriculum

  • 01

    Introduction

    • Summary
  • 02

    File System

    • What is File System

    • Hard Disk

    • NTFS

    • Ext4

    • NTFS vs EXT4
  • 03

    Data Carving

    • Required Files

    • Introduction

    • Manual Data Carving - Using Hex Editor

    • Manual Data Carving - Carving an Image from a Doc File

    • Automatic Data Carving - Photorec

    • Automatic Data Carving - foremost
  • 04

    Exercises

    • Required Files

    • Exercise #1

    • Exercise #1 - Solution

    • Exercise #2

    • Exercise #2 - Solution

    • Exercise #3

    • Exercise #3 - Solution

4 CPE Credits

After completing this course, you will earn:

Learning Outcomes

This course demonstrates the skills that you need to get started with data carving.

  • What is a file system and an intro to the most common file systems used

  • How-to carve files using automated tools

  • How-to carve files manually using a hex-editor

Technical Requirements

For the hands-on labs in this course

  • Windows 10 and Linux operating systems

  • Internet Connection

  • 010 Editor here or HxD Editor here

  • PhotoRec here or Foremost here

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