DV300 Advanced Multimedia File Analysis with Magnet Verify
This an advanced course designed for investigators, examiners, and analysts who are already operating at a moderate level of audio/video complexity.
Description
This an advanced course designed for investigators, examiners, and analysts who are already operating at a moderate level of audio/video complexity. The course focuses heavily on education (what practitioners should know) rather than training (how to conduct an investigation. Even so and throughout the course, there is strong emphasis on practical application, with various hands-on exercises integrated into the modules, such as manual parsing, automated extraction for playback, exercises to triangulate and validate automated tool output, and byte-level repair exercises for problematic video files, as well as exercises pertaining to cloud acquisition. This practical component is crucial for achieving thorough understanding of audio-visual evidence. Students who have attended "AX100 - Forensic Fundamentals" (or an equivalent) and "DV150 - Media Authentication and Analysis with Magnet Verify", will have the foundational and supporting information necessary to successfully complete the course.
Course modules
Module 1: Course Introduction
Introduction to the course, module summaries, information about Magnet Verify software and the third-party tools used in class.
Module 2: An Overview of the Video Forensics Landscape
Current challenges facing video forensic examiners.
Module 3: Media File Format Construction and Parsing - JPEG
Covers JPEG format specification, parsing instruction, and includes hands-on parsing exercises.
Module 4: Media File Format Construction and Parsing - TIFF
Covers TIFF format specification, parsing instruction, and includes hands-on parsing exercises.
Module 5: Media File Format Construction and Parsing - WAVE
Covers WAVE format specification, parsing instruction, and includes hands-on parsing exercises.
Module 6: Media File Format Construction and Parsing - AVI
Covers AVI format specification, parsing instruction, and includes hands-on parsing exercises.
Module 7: Focus on ISO BMFF Frame Sample Tables - Location, Size, Timing
Involves understanding video sample tables, parsing and joining data from them, and using automated tools to auto-compile this data. Hands-on excercises involve playing, converting, and streaming audio/video, and inspection of metadata and native files to identify duration, frame rate, frame size, aspect ratio, and codec.
Module 8: Video Encoding and Sequencing - H264
Focuses on understanding H264 atomic components.
Module 9: Video Encoding and Decoding - H264 Annex B
Explains how H264 is packaged for streaming, with hands-on Annex B extraction for playback.
Module 10: Video Encoding and Decoding - H264 AVCC
Details how H264 is packaged in ISO BMFF files for storage, with hands-on AVCC extraction for playback.
Module 11: Validating Metadata Extraction Tools
Involves metadata extraction review, automated methods, and tools with hands-on exercises to triangulate and validate automated tool output.
Module 12: Troubleshooting Problematic Video Files - Manual
Explores how video files can be broken, manual approaches for video repair, and includes hands-on repair exercises. This module is explicitly designed to develop the skill to repair corrupted video files.
Module 13: Effects of Acquiring Files from Cloud and Platforms
Discusses how cloud acquisition approaches affect structure, metadata, authenticity), using platform examples like YouTube and Ring, with hands-on exercises. This module directly supports understanding the processes for reviewing and forensically acquiring data from cloud-based and social media sources.
Module 14: Video Analysis Practicum
This module presents practical scenarios, analysis of unknown files, authentication of social media acquired video, and provenance identification, building upon the advanced techniques learned throughout the course. This directly addresses the complex video authentication objective.
Additional information
Who should attend: Participants who are unfamiliar with the principles of digital forensics
Advanced preparation: None
Program level: Advanced-level
Field of study: Computer software & applications
Delivery Method: Group internet based & group live
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