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Forensics & OSINT
CTF Challenges

Investigate digital evidence, analyze memory dumps, recover hidden data, and track down targets using open-source intelligence. Think like a detective, hack like an analyst.

Beginner to Advanced
7 recommended tools
10 skill areas

Core Skills & Techniques

Forensics and OSINT challenges develop your investigative skills. Digital forensics tasks involve analyzing disk images, memory dumps, network captures, and file metadata. OSINT challenges test your ability to gather intelligence from publicly available sources.

01
Disk & File System Forensics (NTFS, ext4, FAT)
02
Memory Forensics with Volatility
03
Network Traffic Analysis (PCAP)
04
Steganography
Image, Audio, Video
05
Log Analysis & Timeline Reconstruction
06
Email Header Analysis & Phishing Investigation
07
Metadata Extraction & EXIF Analysis
08
Social Media & Internet OSINT
09
Geolocation & Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT)
10
Malware Triage & Artifact Recovery

Essential Toolkit

These are the industry-standard tools used by professionals and CTF competitors for forensics & osint challenges.

Volatility
Wireshark
Autopsy/Sleuth Kit
Binwalk
ExifTool
Maltego
theHarvester

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