Digital Forensics Analyst
Practitioner-level certification for digital forensics. Covers file artifacts, network forensics, and memory analysis.
File Forensics, Metadata, Carving and Steganography
EXIF metadata
Hidden ZIP in image
Steganography
Corrupted archive
Cloud Instance Metadata Credential Theft: IMDS Exploitation for IAM Role Token Extraction
Employee OSINT Profiling: Corporate Web Presence Analysis and Identity Correlation
Email-to-Pastebin OSINT Pivot: Address-Based Identity Tracing to Exposed Secret Discovery
Type Confusion Exploitation: C++ Vtable Misdirection and Union-Based Memory Reinterpretation for Code Execution
IMDS SSRF to IAM Credential Theft: Metadata Endpoint Exploitation for Role Hijacking
Lambda-to-Secrets-Manager Privilege Chain: Function Role Exploitation for Secret Retrieval
Terraform State-to-AWS Pivot: Credential Extraction Chain from Leaked State to Live Resources
Git Commit-to-Pastebin OSINT Pivot: Repository Secret Discovery Chained to Paste Platform Intelligence
E-Commerce Order-to-Email OSINT: Purchase Record Pivoting for Customer Identity Attribution
Corporate OSINT Chain: WHOIS, Website and SMTP Enumeration for Targeted Intelligence Gathering
Point-of-Interest to Social Media Pivot: Geographic OSINT Chained to Instagram Profile Identification
Git-to-S3 Infrastructure OSINT: Repository Credential Pivoting to Cloud Storage Data Extraction
Corporate OSINT Chain: Website, LDAP and SMTP Enumeration for Employee and Infrastructure Discovery
Four-Service Social OSINT Trail: Sequential Platform Pivoting for Target Activity Reconstruction
AWS S3 Bucket OSINT Enumeration: Public Bucket Discovery and Sensitive Data Identification
Social Media Identity Operations OSINT: Detecting Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior and Sockpuppet Networks
Cloud Asset Leak Investigation: Exposed Object Storage and Misconfigured Public Resource OSINT
Corporate Digital Footprint OSINT: Passive Reconnaissance and External Attack Surface Mapping
Multi-Service Infrastructure OSINT Chain: LDAP, OAuth, Kubernetes and Git Pivot Sequence
Multi-Platform OSINT Chain: Shop, Git, IMDS and Chat Pivot Across Five Distinct Data Sources
Network Forensics and Session Reconstruction
Detecting Advanced DNS Tunneling Evasion via Slow-Rate Exfiltration and Multi-Domain Correlation
Reconstructing HTTP Sessions via Multi-Request Correlation, Credential and Object Recovery
Detecting TLS Fingerprint Anomalies via JA3/JA3S Computation and Malware Client Identification
Detecting ICMP Covert Channels via Payload Anomaly Identification and Hidden Data Extraction
Reconstructing FTP Data Exfiltration via Passive Mode Analysis and TCP Stream Extraction
Analyzing Advanced SMTP Exfiltration via MIME Multipart Parsing and Encoded Attachment Recovery
Identifying IRC Botnet C2 via PRIVMSG Command Pattern Analysis and Bot Fingerprinting
Detecting Kerberoasting and AS-REP Roasting via TGS-REQ Analysis and Ticket Extraction
Analyzing WebSocket Data Exfiltration via Frame Demasking, Payload Extraction and Protocol Reconstruction
Extracting Modbus Register Data via ICS/OT Protocol Forensics and Unauthorized Read Detection
Recovering Corrupted PCAP Files via Magic Byte Forensics and Partial Capture Reconstruction
Volatility 3 Advanced Analysis: Symbol Tables, Namespaced Plugins and Cross-Layer Memory Correlation
DOCX core metadata forensics
DOCX hidden text forensics
DOCX revision comment forensics
DOCX acrostic steganography
DOCX revision history (track changes)
DOCX extended app properties forensics
XLSX core metadata forensics
XLSX hidden cell forensics (white-on-white)
XLSX named range forensics
XLSX cell comment forensics
XLSX hidden worksheet forensics
XLSX very-hidden worksheet forensics
Shellcode Injection and Execution: NX-Free Environment Exploitation and NOP Sled Delivery
Kubernetes RBAC to S3 Pivot: Pod Service Account Lateral Movement to Cloud Storage
IAM Privilege Escalation Chain: AssumeRole, PassRole and CreatePolicyVersion Abuse Paths
Reconstructing Ransomware Infection Vectors from Multi-Source Log Evidence
C2 Beaconing Detection via Log Interval Analysis and Temporal Correlation
Correlating SQLi, XSS, LFI and RCE Attack Patterns Across Web Server Access Logs
Detecting Malicious Service Persistence via Windows Event 7045 and Systemd Unit Forensics
Detecting DNS Exfiltration Through Entropy-Based Subdomain Anomaly Analysis
Instagram-to-Twitter Persona Pivot: Cross-Platform Handle Correlation and Profile Reconstruction
Memory Forensics and Volatile Artifacts
In-Memory Password Recovery: LSASS Analysis, WDigest Extraction and Credential Cache Forensics
Detecting Process Injection: Identifying DLL Injection, Hollowing and Reflective Loading Artifacts
Identifying Log Tampering Through Clearance Events and Sequence Gap Analysis
OAuth-to-Kubernetes-to-Git OSINT Pivot: Authorization Flow Exploitation Across Infrastructure Services
Corporate OSINT Chain: WHOIS, LDAP and SMTP Correlation for Organizational Intelligence
Social Media-to-Map-to-Stego-to-Chat Pivot: Multi-Modal OSINT Chain Across Four Data Domains
Full Corporate Breach Simulation: Five-Service OSINT Chain from Reconnaissance to Data Exfiltration
Chain of Custody and Forensic Report Writing [Non-CTF]
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CTFFactory Digital Forensics Analyst — Practitioner
Practitioner credential — awarded upon completion