Please note that the current times and items are tentative and subject to change closer to the conference date.
Please note: All times below are in Brisbane Time:
Schedule of Events
| Tuesday, October 22 (Cloudland) | ||||
| Workshops | ||||
| Track A (Moon Room) | Track B (Alice Room) | |||
| 08:30 | Understanding and Analyzing Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) Files Parag Rughani & Priyanka Singh | National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) | Third-Party App Analysis Methodologies in Mobile Forensics Jessica Hyde | Hexordia |
| 10:30 | Break | |||
| Understanding and Analyzing Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) Files by Parag Rughani | Third-Party App Analysis Methodologies in Mobile Forensics by Jessica Hyde | |||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | Interpreting Mobile Phone Network Records Matthew Sorell | University of Adelaide | Synthetic Generation and Provision of Digital Forensic Data Sets Using the ForTrace Data Synthesis Framework Dennis Wolf | Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS) & University of the Bundeswehr in Munich |
| 15:30 | Break | |||
| Interpreting Mobile Phone Network Records by Prof. Mathew Sorell | Synthetic Generation and Provision of Digital Forensic Data Sets Using the ForTrace Data Synthesis Framework by Dennis Wolf | |||
| 17:00 | End of Day | |||
| 18:00 | DFRWS Outing to the Wharf District. After the workshops we are heading to the Howard Smith Wharves. Meet up point: Felons Brewery in the closest section to the Ferry Dock. (Pay on your own) | |||
| Wednesday, October 23 (Cloudland) | ||||
| 09:00 | Welcome Remarks: Bradley Schatz | |||
| 09:30 | Keynote: Digital Forensics is dead! Long live Digital Forensics! Chair: Matthew Sorell | Dr. Michael Cohen | Rapid7 | |
| 10:30 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | Paper Session 1 Session Chair: Parag Rughani | |||
| GBKPA and AuxShield: Addressing Adversarial Robustness and Transferability in Android Malware Detection (Virtual) | Kumarakrishna Valeti and Hemant Rathore | Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India | ||
| 11:30 | Re-imagen: Generating Coherent Background Activity in Synthetic Scenario-Based Forensic Datasets Using Large Language Models | Lena Lucia Voigt, Felix Freiling and Chris Hargreaves | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | |
| 12:00 | TAENet: Two-branch Autoencoder Network for Interpretable Deepfake Detection | Fuqiang Du, Min Yu, Boquan Li, Kam Pui Chow, Jianguo Jiang, Yixin Zhang, Yachao Liang, Min Li and Weiqing Huang | Institute of Information Engineering, CAS and the School of Cyber Security, UCAS | |
| 12:30 | Lunch/Posters | |||
| 13:30 | Paper Session 2 Session Chair: Frank Adelstein | |||
| Revisiting logical image formats for future digital forensics: A comprehensive analysis on L01 and AFF4-L | Sorin Im, Hyunah Park, Jihun Joun, Sangjin Lee and Jungheum Park | Korea University | ||
| 14:00 | Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models for Author Profiling Tasks in Digital Text Forensics | Sang-Hyun Cho, Dohyun Kim, Hyuk-Chul Kwon and Minho Kim | Pusan National University | |
| 14:30 | Towards a Unified XAI-based Framework for Digital Forensic Investigations | Zainab Khalid and Farkhund Iqbal | ||
| 15:00 | Break | |||
| 15:30 | Afternoon Session Session Chair: Jan-Niclas Hilgert | |||
| Mastering Digital Forensics Expert Witness Case Work - Australian Case Law and Legislation | Zoran Illiev | CDFS | ||
| 16:00 | The Cyber-traceological Model: A Model-based View of the Cybercriminalistic Task | Jan Gruber and Felix Freiling | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | |
| 16:30 | Lightning Talks | |||
| 18:00 | Awards Ceremony and Digital Forensic Rodeo After the formal conference concludes for the day, the social program will begin at BrewDog (Address: 235 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006). Come raise a glass as the Best Paper Awards winners are revealed and participate in "Operation Pumpkin Scone". The Digital Forensics Rodeo is a friendly, fun fueled competition and participants at all levels are encouraged to collaborate in teams, dig into the hands-on technical challenges, gain new friends and DFIR skills (food and drink tickets included - and prizes awarded where prizes are due). | |||
| Thursday, October 24 (Cloudland) | ||||
| 9.00 | Welcome and keynote introduction: Bradley Schatz | |||
| Keynote: From Crime Scenes to Cyber Scenes: How Digital Forensics Evolved from a Niche Policing Discipline to a Multidisciplinary Field, and Its Relevance in the Age of Cyber Threats | Darren Hopkins | McGrathNicol | ||
| 10:00 | Panel: The new UN CyberCrime Convention: how will it affect digital forensics? Panel Chair: Matthew Sorell | |||
| 10:45 | Break | |||
| 11:15 | Paper Session 3 Session Chair: Raymond Chan | |||
| mount SMB.pcap: Reconstructing File Systems and File Operations from Network Traffic | Jan-Niclas Hilgert, Axel Mahr and Martin Lambertz | Fraunhofer FKIE | ||
| 11:45 | MIC: Memory analysis of IndexedDB data on Chromium-based applications | Byeongchan Jeong, Sangjin Lee and Jungheum Park | Korea University | |
| 12:15 | A Three-Pronged Approach to Malicious APK: Combining Snort, Wireshark, and Wazuh for Advanced Threat Management | Yi Anson Lam | Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau, Hong Kong Police Force | |
| 12:45 | Lunch/BoF | |||
| 13:45 | Paper Session 4 Session Chair: Priyanka Singh | |||
| The Provenance of Apple Health Data: A Timeline of Update History | Luke Jennings, Matthew Sorell and Hugo G. Espinosa | The University of Adelaide | ||
| 14:15 | Video Source Identification using Machine Learning: A Case Study of 16 Instant Messaging Applications | Hyomin Yang, Junho Kim and Jungheum Park | Korea University | |
| 14:45 | Geotagging Accuracy in Smartphone Photography | Elénore Ryser, Hannes Spichiger and David-Olivier Jaquet-Chiffelle | Cranfield University | |
| 15:15 | Break | |||
| 15:45 | Afternoon Session Session Chair: Jungheum Park | |||
| Nintendo 3DS forensics: a secondhand case study | Huw Read, Konstantinos Xynos, Iain Sutherland, Matthew Bovee and Clyde Tamburro | Norwich University | ||
| 16:15 | Do You “Relay” Want to Give Me Away? – Forensic Cues of Smart Relays and Their IoT Companion Apps | Maximilian Eichhorn and Gaston Pugliese | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | |
| 16:45 | Finding a diamond in the dumpster, decoding RAM in Mobile Forensics | Adam Firman | MSAB | |
| 17:15 | Concluding Remarks | |||
| 18:30 | DFRWS APAC Future Planning Session (Valley Hops Brewing - Top Floor @ Cloudland) We need YOU! Get involved in DFRWS - we are a volunteer-run, non-profit organization dedicated to steering the direction of DFIR by supporting innovative research and practical application in the field. DFRWS APAC 2025 is on the horizon, future planing is underway and we are eager to make this an event you look forward to all year. All are welcome to join this informal planning session to participate in creating the community they crave. (Pay on your own) | |||