EC-COUNCIL Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator : 312-49

  • Exam Code: 312-49
  • Exam Name: Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator
  • Updated: May 29, 2026
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EC-Council 312-49 Exam Syllabus Topics:

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Digital Forensics- Review Various Anti-Forensic Techniques and Ways to Defeat Them
  • Anti-Forensics Technique: Data/File Deletion
  • What Happens When a File is Deleted in Windows?
  • Recycle Bin in Windows
  • File Carving
  • Anti-Forensics Techniques: Password Protection
  • Bypassing Passwords on Powered-off Computer
  • Anti-Forensics Technique: Steganography
  • Anti-Forensics Technique: Alternate Data Streams
  • Anti-Forensics Techniques: Trail Obfuscation
  • Anti-Forensics Technique: Artifact Wiping
  • Anti-Forensics Technique: Overwriting Data/Metadata
  • Anti-Forensics Technique: Encryption
  • Anti-Forensics Technique: Program Packers
  • Anti-Forensics Techniques that Minimize Footprint
  • Anti-Forensics Technique: Exploiting Forensics Tools Bugs
  • Anti-Forensics Technique: Detecting Forensic Tool Activities
  • Anti-Forensics Countermeasures
  • Anti-Forensics Tools

- Analyze Various Files Associated with Windows and Linux and Android Devices

  • Windows File Analysis
  • Metadata Investigation
  • Windows ShellBags
  • Analyze LNK Files
  • Analyze Jump Lists
  • Event logs
  • File System Analysis using The Sleuth Kit (TSK)
  • Linux Memory Forensics
  • APFS File System Analysis: Biskus APFS Capture
  • Parsing metadata on Spotlight
  • Logical Acquisition of Android Devices
  • Physical Acquisition of Android Devices
  • SQLite Database Extraction
  • Challenges in Mobile Forensics

- Analyze various logs and perform network forensics to investigate network attacks

  • Analyzing Firewall Logs
  • Analyzing IDS Logs
  • Analyzing Honeypot Logs
  • Analyzing Router Logs
  • Analyzing DHCP Logs
  • Why investigate Network Traffic?
  • Gathering evidence via Sniffers
  • Sniffing Tool: Tcpdump
  • Sniffing Tool: Wireshark
  • Analyze Traffic for TCP SYN flood DOS attack
  • Analyze Traffic for SYN-FIN flood DOS attack
  • Analyze traffic for FTP password cracking attempts
  • Analyze traffic for SMB password cracking attempts
  • Analyze traffic for sniffing attempts
  • Analyze traffic to detect malware activity
  • Centralized Logging Using SIEM Solutions
  • SIEM Solutions: Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)
  • SIEM Solutions: IBM Security QRadar
  • Examine Brute-Force Attacks
  • Examine DoS Attack
  • Examine Malware Activity
  • Examine data exfiltration attempts made through FTP
  • Examine network scanning attempts
  • Examine ransomware attack
  • Detect rogue DNS server (DNS hijacking/DNS spoofing)
  • Wireless network security vulnerabilities
  • Performing attack and vulnerability monitoring
  • Detect a rogue access point
  • Detect access point MAC spoofing attempts
  • Detect misconfigured access point
  • Detect honeypot access points
  • Detect signal jamming attack

- Analyze Various Logs and Perform Web Application Forensics to Examine Various Web Based Attacks

  • Investigating Cross-Site Scripting Attack
  • Investigating SQL Injection Attack
  • Investigating Directory Traversal Attack
  • Investigating Command Injection Attack
  • Investigating Parameter Tampering Attack
  • Investigating XML External Entity Attack
  • Investigating Brute Force Attack
  • Investigating Cookie Poisoning Attack

- Perform Forensics on Databases, Dark Web, Emails, Cloud and IoT devices

  • Database Forensics Using SQL Server Management Studio
  • Database Forensics Using ApexSQL DBA
  • Common Scenario for Reference
  • MySQL Forensics for WordPress Website Database: Scenario 1
  • MySQL Forensics for WordPress Website Database: Scenario 2
  • Tor Browser Forensics: Memory Acquisition
  • Collecting Memory Dumps
  • Memory Dump Analysis: Bulk Extractor
  • Forensic Analysis of Memory Dumps to Examine Email Artifacts (Tor Browser Open)
  • Forensic Analysis of Storage to Acquire the Email Attachments (Tor Browser Open)
  • Forensic Analysis of Memory Dumps to Examine Email Artifacts (Tor Browser Closed)
  • Forensic Analysis of Storage to Acquire the Email Attachments (Tor Browser Closed)
  • Forensic Analysis: Tor Browser Uninstalled
  • Dark Web Forensics Challenges
  • Introduction to email crime investigation
  • Steps to investigate email crimes
  • Division of Responsibilities
  • Where Is the Data Stored in Azure?
  • Logs in Azure
  • Acquiring A VM in Microsoft Azure
  • Acquiring A VM Snapshot Using Azure Portal
  • Acquiring A VM Snapshot Using PowerShell
  • AWS Forensics
  • Wearable IoT Device: Smartwatch
  • IoT Device Forensics: Smart Speaker-Amazon Echo

- Perform Static and Dynamic Malware Analysis in a Sandboxed Environment

  • Malware Analysis: Static
  • Analyzing Suspicious MS Office Document
  • Analyzing Suspicious PDF Document
  • Malware Analysis: Dynamic

- Analyze Malware Behavior on System and Network Level, and Analyze Fileless Malware

  • System Behavior Analysis: Monitoring Registry Artifacts
  • System Behavior Analysis: Monitoring Processes
  • System Behavior Analysis: Monitoring Windows Services
  • System Behavior Analysis: Monitoring Startup Programs
  • System Behavior Analysis: Monitoring Windows Event Logs
  • System Behavior Analysis: Monitoring API Calls
  • System Behavior Analysis: Monitoring Device Drivers
  • System Behavior Analysis: Monitoring Files and Folders
  • Network Behavior Analysis: Monitoring Network Activities
  • Network Behavior Analysis: Monitoring Port
  • Network Behavior Analysis: Monitoring DNS
  • Fileless Malware Analysis: Emotet
  • Emotet Malware Analysis
  • Emotet Malware Analysis: Timeline of the Infection Chain
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Regulations, Policies and Ethics- Understand rules and regulations pertaining to search & seizure of the evidence, and evidence examination
  • Rules of Evidence
  • Best Evidence Rule
  • Federal Rules of Evidence
  • Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE)
  • ACPO Principles of Digital Evidence
  • Seeking Consent
  • Obtaining Witness Signatures
  • Obtaining Warrant for Search and Seizure
  • Searches Without a Warrant
  • Initial Search of the Scene
  • Preserving Evidence
  • Chain of Custody
  • Sanitize the Target Media
  • Records of Regularly Conducted Activity as Evidence
  • Division of Responsibilities

- Understand different laws and legal issues that impact forensic investigations

  • Computer Forensics: Legal Issues
  • Computer Forensics: Privacy Issues
  • Computer Forensics and Legal Compliance
  • Other Laws that May Influence Computer Forensics
  • U.S. Laws Against Email Crime: CAN-SPAM Act
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Procedures and Methodology- Understand Forensic Investigation Process
  • Forensic investigation process
  • Importance of the Forensic investigation process
  • Setting up a computer forensics lab
  • Building the investigation team
  • Understanding the hardware and software requirements of a forensic lab
  • Validating laboratory software and hardware
  • Ensuring quality assurance
  • First response basics
  • First response by non-forensics staff
  • First response by system/network administrators
  • First response by laboratory forensics staff
  • Documenting the electronic crime scene
  • Search and seizure
  • Evidence preservation
  • Data acquisition
  • Data analysis
  • Case analysis
  • Reporting
  • Testify as an expert witness
  • Generating Investigation Report
  • Mobile Forensics Process
  • Mobile Forensics Report Template
  • Sample Mobile Forensic Analysis Worksheet

- Understand the methodology to acquire data from different types of evidence

  • Data Acquisition Methodology
  • Step 1: Determine the Best Data Acquisition Method
  • Step 2: Select the Data Acquisition Tool
  • Step 3: Sanitize the Target Media
  • Step 4: Acquire Volatile Data
  • Acquire Data From a Hard Disk
  • Remote Data Acquisition
  • Step 5: Enable Write Protection on the Evidence Media
  • Step 6: Acquire Non-Volatile Data
  • Step 7: Plan for Contingency
  • Step 8: Validate Data Acquisition Using
  • Collecting Volatile Information
  • Collecting Non-Volatile Information
  • Collecting Volatile Database Data
  • Collecting Primary Data File and Active Transaction Logs Using SQLCMD
  • Collecting Primary Data File and Transaction Logs
  • Collecting Active Transaction Logs Using SQL Server Management Studio
  • Collecting Database Plan Cache
  • Collecting Windows Logs
  • Collecting SQL Server Trace Files
  • Collecting SQL Server Error Logs

- Illustrate Image/Evidence Examination and Event Correlation

  • Getting an Image Ready for Examination
  • Viewing an Image on a Windows, Linux and Mac Forensic Workstations
  • Windows Memory Analysis
  • Windows Registry Analysis
  • File System Analysis Using Autopsy
  • File System Analysis Using The Sleuth Kit (TSK)
  • Event Correlation
  • Types of Event Correlation
  • Prerequisites of Event Correlation
  • Event Correlation Approaches

- Explain Dark Web and Malware Forensics

  • Dark web forensics
  • Identifying TOR Browser Artifacts: Command Prompt
  • Identifying TOR Browser Artifacts: Windows Registry
  • Identifying TOR Browser Artifacts: Prefetch Files
  • Introduction to Malware Forensics
  • Why Analyze Malware?
  • Malware Analysis Challenges
  • Identifying and Extracting Malware
  • Prominence of Setting up a Controlled Malware Analysis Lab
  • Preparing Testbed for Malware Analysis
  • Supporting Tools for Malware Analysis
  • General Rules for Malware Analysis
  • Documentation Before Analysis
  • Types of Malware Analysis
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Tools/Systems/ Programs
  • - Identify various tools to investigate Operating Systems including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS
  • File System Analysis Tools
  • File Format Analyzing Tools
  • Volatile Data Acquisition Tools
  • Non-Volatile Data Acquisition Tools
  • Data Acquisition Validation Tools
  • Tools for Examining Images on Windows
  • Tools for Examining Images on Linux
  • Tools for Examining Images on Mac
  • Tools for Carving Files on Windows
  • Tools for Carving Files on Linux
  • Tools for Carving Files on Mac
  • Recovering Deleted Partitions: Using R-Studio
  • Recovering Deleted Partitions: Using EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
  • Partition Recovery Tools
  • Using Rainbow Tables to Crack Hashed Passwords
  • Password Cracking Using: L0phtCrack and Ophcrack
  • Password Cracking Using Cain & Abel and RainbowCrack
  • Password Cracking Using pwdump7
  • Password Cracking Tools
  • Tool to Reset Admin Password
  • Steganography Detection Tools
  • Detecting Data Hiding in File System Structures Using OSForensics
  • ADS Detection Tools
  • Detecting File Extension Mismatch using Autopsy
  • Tools to detect Overwritten Data/Metadata
  • Program Packers Unpacking Tools
  • USB Device Enumeration using Windows PowerShell
  • Tools to Collect Volatile Information
  • Tools to Non-Collect Volatile Information
  • Tools to perform windows memory and registry analysis
  • Tools to examine the cache, Cookie and history recorded in web browsers
  • Tools to Examine Windows Files and Metadata
  • Tools to Examine ShellBags, LNK files and Jump Lists
  • Tools to Collect Volatile Information on Linux
  • Tools to Collect Non-Volatile Information on Linux
  • Linux File system Analysis Tools
  • Tools to Perform Linux Memory Forensics
  • APFS File System Analysis
  • Parsing metadata on Spotlight
  • MAC Forensic Tools
  • Network Traffic Investigation Tools
  • Incident Detection and Examination with SIEM tools
  • Detect and Investigate Various Attacks on Web Applications by Examining Various Logs
  • Tools to Identify TOR Artifacts
  • Tools to Acquire Memory Dumps
  • Tools to Examine the Memory Dumps
  • Tools to Perform Static Malware Analysis
  • Tools to Analyze Suspicious Word and PDF documents
  • Tools to Perform Static Malware Analysis
  • Tools to Analyze Malware Behavior on a System
  • Tools to Analyze Malware Behavior on a Network
  • Tools to Perform Logical Acquisition on Android and iOS devices
  • Tools to Perform Physical Acquisition on Android and iOS devices

- Determine the various tools to investigate MSSQL, MySQL, Azure, AWS, Emails and IoT devices

  • Tools to Collect and Examine the Evidence Files on MSSQL Server
  • Tools to Collect and Examine the Evidence Files on MySQL Server
  • Investigating Microsoft Azure
  • Investigating AWS
  • Tools to Acquire Email Data
  • Tools to Acquire Deleted Emails
  • Tools to Perform Forensics on IoT devices
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Digital Evidence- Understand the fundamental characteristics and types of digital evidence
  • Introduction to Digital Evidence
  • Types of Digital Evidence
  • Characteristics of Digital Evidence
  • Role of Digital Evidence
  • Sources of Potential Evidence
  • Understanding Hard Disk
  • Understanding Solid State Drive (SSD)
  • RAID Storage System
  • NAS/SAN Storage
  • Disk Interfaces
  • Logical Structure of Disks

- Understand the fundamental concepts and working of desktop and mobile Operating Systems

  • What is the Booting Process?
  • Essential Windows System Files
  • Windows Boot Process: BIOS-MBR Method
  • Windows Boot Process: UEFI-GPT
  • Macintosh Boot Process
  • Linux Boot Process
  • Windows File Systems
  • Linux File Systems
  • Mac OS X File Systems
  • MAC Forensics Data
  • MAC Log Files
  • MAC Directories
  • CD-ROM / DVD File System
  • Virtual File System (VFS) and Universal Disk Format File System (UDF)
  • Architectural Layers of Mobile Device Environment
  • Android Architecture Stack
  • Android Boot Process
  • iOS Architecture
  • iOS Boot Process
  • Mobile Storage and Evidence Locations
  • Mobile Phone Evidence Analysis
  • Data Acquisition Methods
  • Components of Cellular Network
  • Different Cellular Networks
  • Cell Site Analysis: Analyzing Service Provider Data
  • CDR Contents
  • Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)
  • Different types of network-based evidence

- Understand different types of logs and their importance in forensic investigations

  • Understanding Events
  • Types of Logon Events
  • Event Log File Format
  • Organization of Event Records
  • ELF_LOGFILE_HEADER structure
  • EventLogRecord Structure
  • Windows 10 Event Logs
  • Other Audit Events
  • Evaluating Account Management Events
  • Log files as evidence
  • Legal criteria for admissibility of logs as evidence
  • Guidelines to ensure log file credibility and usability
  • Ensure log file authenticity
  • Maintain log file integrity
  • Implement centralized log management
  • IIS Web Server Architecture
  • IIS Logs
  • Analyzing IIS Logs
  • Apache Web Server Architecture
  • Apache Web Server Logs
  • Apache Access Logs
  • Apache Error Logs

- Understand various encoding standards and analyze various file types

  • Character Encoding Standard: ASCII
  • Character Encoding Standard: UNICODE
  • OFFSET
  • Understanding Hex Editors
  • Understanding Hexadecimal Notation
  • Image File Analysis: JPEG
  • Image File Analysis: BMP
  • Understanding EXIF data
  • Hex View of Popular Image File Formats
  • PDF File Analysis
  • Word File Analysis
  • PowerPoint File Analysis
  • Excel File Analysis
  • Hex View of Other Popular File Formats

- Understand the fundamental working of WAF and MySQL Database

  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Benefits of WAF
  • Limitations of WAF
  • Data Storage in SQL Server
  • Database Evidence Repositories
  • MySQL Forensics
  • Viewing the Information Schema
  • MySQL Utility Programs for Forensic Analysis
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Forensic Science- Understand different types of cybercrimes and list various forensic investigations challenges
  • Types of Computer Crimes
  • Impact of Cybercrimes at Organizational Level
  • Cyber Crime Investigation
  • Challenges Cyber Crimes Present for Investigators
  • Network Attacks
  • Indicators of Compromise (IOC)
  • Web Application Threats
  • Challenges in Web Application Forensics
  • Indications of a Web Attack
  • What is Anti-Forensics?
  • Anti-Forensics Techniques

- Understand the fundamentals of computer forensics and determine the roles and responsibilities of forensic investigators

  • Understanding Computer Forensics
  • Need for Computer Forensics
  • Why and When Do You Use Computer Forensics?
  • Forensic Readiness
  • Forensic Readiness and Business Continuity
  • Forensics Readiness Planning
  • Incident Response
  • Computer Forensics as part of Incident Response Plan
  • Overview of Incident Response Process Flow
  • Role of SOC in Computer Forensics
  • Need for Forensic Investigator
  • Roles and Responsibilities of Forensics Investigator
  • What makes a Good Computer Forensics Investigator?
  • Code of Ethics
  • Accessing Computer Forensics Resources
  • Other Factors That Influence Forensic Investigations
  • Introduction to Web Application Forensics
  • Introduction to Network Forensics
  • Postmortem and Real-Time Analys

- Understand data acquisition concepts and rules

  • Understanding Data Acquisition
  • Live Acquisition
  • Order of Volatility
  • Dead Acquisition
  • Rules of Thumb for Data Acquisition
  • Types of Data Acquisition
  • Determine the Data Acquisition Format

- Understand the fundamental concepts and working of databases, cloud computing, Emails, IOT, Malware (file and fileless), and dark web

  • Understanding Dark Web
  • TOR Relays
  • How TOR Browser works
  • TOR Bridge Node
  • Internal architecture of MySQL
  • Structure of data directory
  • Introduction to Cloud Computing
  • Types of Cloud Computing Services
  • Cloud Deployment Models
  • Cloud Computing Threats
  • Cloud Computing Attacks
  • Introduction to an email system
  • Components involved in email communication
  • How email communication works
  • Understanding parts of an email message
  • Introduction to Malware
  • Components of Malware
  • Common Techniques Attackers Use to Distribute Malware across Web
  • Introduction to Fileless Malware
  • Infection Chain of Fileless Malware
  • How Fileless Attack Works via Memory Exploits
  • How Fileless Attack Happens Via Websites
  • How Fileless Attack Happens Via Documents
  • What is IoT?
  • IoT Architecture
  • IoT Security Problems
  • OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities
  • IoT Threats
  • IoT Attack Surface Areas
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