Course Curriculum

  • 01

    Introduction

    • Introduction to File Identification
  • 02

    The HxD Editor

    • Installation of HxD Editor

    • Working with HxD Editor
  • 03

    The 010 Editor

    • Installation of 010Editor

    • Working with 010 Editor
  • 04

    View Menu of 010 Editor

    • 010 Editor, Let us start

    • Explore the View Options

    • Viewing Unicode Files

    • View Options: Edit As

    • View: Font & Character Set

    • View: Line Width & Addresses

    • View: Group by, Division Lines, Left & Right View Areas

    • View: Highlighting, Ruler, & Status Bar

    • More View Options
  • 05

    Traverse File Offsets Using 010 Editor

    • File Offsets

    • Relative Offsets

    • Examples on Relative Offsets 1

    • Examples on Relative Offsets #2
  • 06

    Search Using 010 Editor

    • Search Menu: Find using Hex

    • Search Menu: Find using Text

    • Search Menu: Replace

    • Search Menu: Find Strings

    • Search Menu: Find in Files

    • Search Menu: Replace in Files

    • Search Menu: Goto...

    • Search Menu: Goto using Directions
  • 07

    More 010 Editor Features

    • The Format Menu

    • Tools Menu Part #1

    • Tools Menu Part #2

    • Inspector (Interpreting Data) Part #1

    • Inspector (Interpreting Data) Part #2
  • 08

    010 Editor Templates

    • Templates Part #1

    • Templates (File Signatures) Part #2

    • Templates - PE File (Part #1)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #2)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #3)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #4)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #5)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #6)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #7)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #8)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #9)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #10)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #11)

    • Templates - PE File (Part #12)

    • Reviewing 010 Template for PE File Format
  • 09

    File Signature

    • Introduction to File Signature

    • Text Files

    • Microsoft Word File

    • TAR Files

    • Zip File

    • PNG Files

    • EXE Files

    • MP3 Files

    • MP4 Files
  • 10

    Metadata

    • System Metadata

    • Embedded Metadata
  • 11

    Exercises

    • Required Files

    • Exercise #1

    • Exercise #2

    • Exercise #3

    • Solutions of Exercises
  • 12

    References

    • References

4 CPE Credits

After completing this course, you will earn:

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Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, you will learn the following:

  • Learn how to identify files

  • Recognize the signatures of the most common files

  • Working with a hex editor, HxD and 010 editors

  • What is metadata and the different types metadata

  • Extracting useful metadata information

Technical Requirements

For the hands-on labs in this course

  • Windows 10 operating system (recommended)

  • Internet Connection

  • 010 Editor here or HxD Editor here

  • Exiftool here

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