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Every artifact.
Every byte. Verified.

Lex Fortis Ventures covers mobile extraction, disk forensics, OSINT, CDR/IPDR analysis, and memory forensics with technically accurate, defensible methodology — built for investigators, analysts, and legal professionals who need results that hold up under cross-examination.

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Scene 01 — Evidence Intake

Every investigation begins with an unbroken seal.

A tamper-evident bag, a case ID, a chain-of-custody log — before a single byte is examined, the physical evidence has to be provably untouched.

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Techniques

Six Pillars of Digital Forensics

Every discipline covered on this site, from first acquisition to courtroom-ready documentation.

Methodology

The Forensic Workflow

Every technique on this site maps back to this six-stage backbone — identification through presentation.

1

Identification

Recognize potential evidence sources and scope what needs to be seized.

2

Preservation

Isolate evidence from alteration — write blockers, Faraday bags, hashing.

3

Acquisition

Create a forensically sound, bit-for-bit copy of the original evidence.

4

Analysis

Examine the acquired copy to recover, correlate, and interpret artifacts.

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Documentation

Record every action, tool, and finding with timestamps and hash values.

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Presentation

Communicate findings clearly and defensibly to investigators or a court.

Case Studies

Investigations, Reconstructed

Six realistic, anonymized cases showing full methodology end-to-end.

Intermediate

The Departing Engineer: Tracing IP Theft Through USB Artifacts and Shellbags

A senior engineer resigned and joined a direct competitor within a week. Windows shell artifacts and USB registry entries reconstructed exactly what he took on his way out.

Disk ForensicsWindows Artifacts
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Intermediate

Last Known Location: Reconstructing a Missing Person's Final Hours via CDR

A 34-year-old man was reported missing after failing to return from a business trip. Cell tower handover analysis across two carriers narrowed the search area from a 40 km radius to a single 2 km corridor.

CDR/IPDRCell Tower Mapping
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Advanced

The Shell Network: Unmasking a Financial Fraud Ring Through OSINT Link Analysis

A pattern of near-identical 'investment opportunity' pitches across social media led investigators to a network of 14 fake profiles, three shell domains, and a single reused image asset that broke the case open.

OSINTFinancial Fraud
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Advanced

Patient Zero: Reconstructing a Ransomware Incident From a Single Memory Capture

By the time IT called in forensic support, the ransomware note was already on screen and the encryption service had exited. A single RAM capture from the still-running server reconstructed the entire attack chain.

Memory ForensicsRansomware
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Intermediate

Recovered, Not Deleted: WhatsApp Evidence in a Harassment Investigation

The complainant said the harassing messages had been deleted by the sender before she could screenshot them. A physical extraction and SQLite WAL analysis recovered them anyway.

Mobile ForensicsWhatsApp
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Advanced

Off the Clock: Catching Insider Data Exfiltration in IPDR and Proxy Logs

A departing employee's laptop showed nothing unusual. The proof was in the CGNAT-translated IPDR records showing a personal cloud-storage upload that lined up, second for second, with proxy logs from a device that was never issued to him.

IPDRInsider Threat
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Knowledge Base

Popular Questions

A sample from our 40+ question knowledge base — searchable, categorized, and deep-linkable.

Logical extraction pulls data through the device's normal operating system APIs — contacts, messages, call logs, photos — similar to what a backup would contain. It's fast and low-risk but only surfaces data the OS chooses to expose, missing deleted records. Physical extraction copies the raw flash storage bit-for-bit, including deleted, unallocated, and slack space, enabling recovery of deleted messages and files — but it requires deeper device access (often a bootloader exploit or chip-off) and isn't possible on every device, especially modern encrypted iOS/Android handsets. File-system extraction sits in between: full access to the live file system's files and folders, including app databases, but generally not unallocated space.

Tools Covered Across This Site

AutopsyFTK ImagerCellebrite UFEDMSAB XRYMagnet AXIOMVolatility 3WiresharkMaltegoThe Sleuth KitADB (Android Debug Bridge)Oxygen Forensic DetectivetheHarvesterSherlockAutopsyFTK ImagerCellebrite UFEDMSAB XRYMagnet AXIOMVolatility 3WiresharkMaltegoThe Sleuth KitADB (Android Debug Bridge)Oxygen Forensic DetectivetheHarvesterSherlock
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