Forensic test images used in Foremost and Scalpel

In this lab, we'll be using a digital forensic tool-testing image, created by Nick Mikus specifically for testing data carving tools, was used. One of the main reasons for choosing this particular image for this exercise is that Nick Mikus is listed as one of the contributing developers of foremost, as seen in the first line of foremost, which displays the version number alongside the authors', Jesse Kornblum and Kris Kendall, names. The image can be downloaded for free at http://dftt.sourceforge.net/test11/index.html.

Once you've become familiar with this exercise, you can try extracting data from other images also available on the site at http://dftt.sourceforge.net/.

Another file carving dataset that we'll use can be found at https://www.cfreds.nist.gov/FileCarving/index.html. This site contains several datasets with very small images containing archives, images, audio, and video clips, as well as documents...