Starting a New Digital Forensic Investigation Case in Autopsy 4.19+

This is a mini-course on Autopsy. See chapter times below.

Autopsy is a free, open-source, full-features digital forensic investigation tool kit. It is developed by Basis Technology and a large open-source community. You can use Autopsy as the basis to conduct a full digital forensic investigation. You can also expand Autopsy with modules written in Java and Python.

Thank you to our Members and Patrons, but especially to our Investigators, TheRantingGeek and Roman! Thank you so much!

We take you through how to start a digital investigation case in Autopsy. From organizing your data, starting your forensic documentation, processing case data, forensic analysis workflow, and generating reports.

00:00 Starting a digital investigation with Autopsy
00:11 Setting up your forensic workstation
00:37 Organize case files
02:42 Start your documentation!
03:06 Organizing suspect image data
04:33 Starting a new case in Autopsy
04:42 Autopsy: Case Information
05:59 Autopsy: Optional Information
06:57 Autopsy: Select Host
07:39 Autopsy: Select Data Source Type
09:02 Autopsy: Select Data Source
10:27 Autopsy: Configure Ingest
10:46 Modules: Recent Activity
11:09 Modules: Hash Lookup
12:29 Modules: File Type Identification
14:10 Modules: Extension Mismatch Detector
16:03 Modules: Embedded File Extractor
16:24 Modules: Picture Analyzer
16:45 Modules: Keyword Search
19:34 Modules: Email Parser
19:42 Modules: Encryption Detection
19:58 Modules: Interesting Files Identifier
20:41 Modules: Central Repository
22:10 Modules: PhotoRec Carver
22:42 Modules: Virtual Machine Extractor
23:00 Modules: Data Source Integrity
23:17 Modules: ALEAPP
23:34 Modules: Plaso
23:51 Modules: YARA Analyzer
24:17 Modules: iLEAPP
24:33 Modules: Android Analyzer
24:38 Autopsy module selection strategy
25:13 Autopsy: Add Data Source
25:42 Autopsy: Processed Data View
25:58 Autopsy: Main file view
26:18 Autopsy: File detail view
27:58 Autopsy: Filters and views
28:55 Autopsy: Deleted files filter
29:59 Autopsy: Data Artifacts, etc
30:22 Example investigation workflow
30:43 Case-specific keyword search
31:21 Tagging relevant items
34:46 Generate findings report
37:33 Analysis procedure overview
37:55 Autopsy: Images/Videos tool
38:17 Conclusions

Learn how to do forensic keyword searching, entropy testing, YARA basics, file carving, and more with Autopsy digital forensic software.

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[j.s.]

Seriously the best introductory/basic-workflow Autopsy video I've watched. I absolutely love that you give additional detail about the modules, and that you explained your workflow.

[cybercatlabs]

Exactly what I was looking for to complete an assignment. Thank you!

[thanhphuongle]

after trying around 5-11 videos this is the only one that i found working

[filzaakhlaq]

The link in your description for sample data doesn't contain the hash file that is in the video. it only has an image .dd file. How do I proceed ?

[butruscyprianooturoonyong]

thank you master for the basic introduction of using autospy in digital forensic. i have watch the video is very interesting. my gratitude and wish you all the best

[margalocaris]

Very thorough explanation! Your videos have been pointed to by one of my college professors.

[TheMiejoe]

Thanks for the tutorial! I'm a criminal law student so Digital Forensic Investigation is really interesting. I've always wondered how gathering digital evidence works. I learned a lot from your tutorial!

[EphraimStolfus]

Wow! This is really great!!! Information is loved!!!!

[Boonethedude]

This is better information than my textbook. Thank you

[CT-zqkz]

Want to thank you for the time you put into your content. You are pretty much the only forensics Youtube channel that consistently produces great content. Well done my friend, and thank you.

[DEDEPLDEDE]

Very interesting material for someone starting in the IR team. Great video!

[AniketAmdekar]

awesome tutorial for learning the Autopsy tool! Can you also share some good sources for getting forensic images for data recovery challenges?

[malemmutum]

I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks for the great tutorial.

[NightShooter]

FTK and Autopsy are the one's I always use. Great vid.

[Tomas-Montenovi]

Thank you for this well made tutorial!

[RixtronixLAB]

Nice video, well done, thanks for sharing it with us :)

[piyushsingh]

sir, I just wanted to know how did you downloaded the data artifacts module. Because when I do, my all files are extracted except data artifacts module

[michalsedlacek]

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[kcm]

Thank you so much for this! Do you happen to have a video or guide on how to upload an iPhone or Apple device into FTK imager to create a readable format for autopsy?

[RahulYadav-lusc]

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