Fall 2025: Cyber Forensics

Logistics

• Class Timings: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Fridays 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
• Classroom: Tue and Thu: R2; Fri: CL-4
• Lab Timings: Mondays 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
• Labs: CS Lab 5

Course Overview

• As per the Delhi University Course Guidelines

Lectures

Lecture	Topic	Lecture Slides	Readings
Unit-1	Digital Forensics::	[unit1.pdf]	Chapter 1 (CB1)
Unit 2	Windows OS Forensics:	[unit2.pdf]	Chapter 2 (CB1)
Unit 3	Evidence Recovery:	[unit3.pdf]	Chapter 6 (CB1)
Unit 4	Investigation:	[unit4.pdf]	Chapter 4 (CB1)
Unit 5	Cyber Crimes and Cyber Laws:	[unit5.pdf]	Chapter 5 (CB1)

Assignments and Tests

Class Assignments

• Assignment No. 1,
• Assignment No. 2,

Tests and Quizzes

• Test 1 :
• Test 2 :

Labs

Instructions

• Please be on time to avoid the Attendance Penalty.
• Please put your mobile phone on Silent Mode.
• Each lab assignment needs to be submitted in the Google Classroom for evaluation(will be notified in the GC lab-wise, submit before the deadline).
• Turn off(shut down) your assigned computer and arrange the chair before you leave the lab.

Lab 1: ( week of 18^th August 2025 )

Task. No.	Task	Assessment Period	Submission Deadline
1	Study of Network related Commands (Linux) Network Discovery: - nmap, pig, arp Traffic Analysis: - tcpdump, iftop, bmon DNS/Domain Forensics: - dig, host, nslookup, whois Route Analysis: - traceroute, mtr, tracepath System State: - netstat, ss, ifconfig, ip File Retrieval: - wget, curl	18 August 2025 - 25 August 2025	26 August, 2025

Resources

References:

• R1: Marjee T. Britz, Computer Forensics and Cyber Crime: An Introduction, Pearson Education, 2013.
  
• R2: C. Altheide & H. Carvey Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools, Syngress, 2011.
  

Additional References:

1. Computer Forensics: Investigating Network Intrusions and Cybercrime" by Cameron H. Malin, Eoghan Casey, and James M. Aquilina
2. Online Course management System: https://esu.desire2learn.com/
3. Computer Forensics, Computer Crime Investigation by John R,Vacca, Firewall Media, New Delhi.
4. Computer Forensics and Investigations by Nelson, Phillips Enfinger, Steuart,CENGAGE Learning
5. Real Digital Forensics by Keith j.Jones, Richard Bejitlich,Curtis W.Rose, AddisonWesley Pearson Education