The Challenge
The 2010 DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge is based on individual scenario-based, progressive level challenges as a call to the digital forensics community to pioneer new investigative tools, techniques and methodologies.
Objectives
The Objectives of the Annual Digital Forensics Challenge are to:
- Establish relationships within the Digital Forensics Community
- Resolve issues facing the Digital Forensics Community
- Develop new tools, techniques, and methodologies for the Digital Forensic Community
Challenge Levels
Each challenge level establishes the total number of points available per challenge assigned based on its difficulty toward a solution (known to unknown). This is based on the complexity of what a digital forensics examiner normally runs into and has to adjust for/extract/scrutinize in an analysis of those file types for examination problems.
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Level 100:
Challenges with a solution well known to experienced examiners (e.g. File Signatures, Suspicious Software, Hashing Metadata, etc.) -
Level 200:
Challenges with a solution, but having a degree of difficulty (e.g. Data Hiding, File Headers, Passwords, Registry, etc.) -
Level 300:
Difficult challenges that may have a solution, but it is not well known (e.g. Encryption, Parsing, etc.) -
Level 400:
Challenges with no known solution (e.g. Communcation Recovery/Parsing, Concealment of information within computer files, etc.) -
Level 500:
Challenges that involve Digital Forensic tool development based on defined requirements (e.g. tools, methodologies, etc. for known Digital Forensic investigation issues)