Overview

Drones are prone to several cyberattacks such as Hijacking, GPS Spoofing, malware, data stealing, MITM, downlink intercept, DoS and more. Malicious actors can use a hacked drone to hack other drones or IoT devices, crash the device, steal sensitive government or enterprise data, spy on government complexes or plants, attack critical infrastructure or civilians or carry out other criminal activities. Thus, it’s vital for forensic analysts, digital forensic investigators, and law enforcement officers to learn how to extract forensically relevant data, such as GPS data, captured or deleted images and videos, drones' flight paths and metadata, from a hacked drone or a drone involved in a criminal activity, in order to aid the investigation of crimes using drones. 

The course will begin with a deep dive into Drones/UAVs/UAS, including a look at the types and components in drones. As you move along, you’ll learn about the common cyberattacks on drones and the criminal activities that involve drones. The course will then provide a thorough introduction to Drone Forensics. Next, you’ll learn about the various tools that can be used for extracting data from Drones. The course will then illustrate how to extract images, videos, and other data from Drone media storage, and how extract drone data from the drone controlling device/software. The course will also demonstrate how to extract evidence by accessing communication ports/channels/network connections. You’ll also learn how to extract deleted data from Drones as well as how to extract GPS, flight parameters, flight path and other metadata. The course will end with a look at how to create an effective forensic report.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills to extract forensic evidence from drones for investigating criminal activity. The course offers an advanced topic of digital forensics and provides terms, diagrams, and practice scenarios to sharpen one’s investigative abilities and digital forensics knowledge.