Digital Forensics Challenge 2025 (DFC 2025)

Hosted by the Korean Institute of Information Security and Cryptology(KIISC), the Digital Forensics Challenge 2025 (DFC 2025) aims to expand our knowledge of digital forensics and to contribute to this field. Now in its eighteenth year, it plays a significant role in developing new technologies and training forensic experts such as researchers and graduate students in the field of information security.

The challenge consists of two main categories: the Digital Forensics Challenge and the Tech contest. Participants can take part in one or both competitions.

In the Digital Forensics Challenge, an answer sheet for each problem should be submitted in a detailed write-up. Participants are free to solve and submit answers to a total of 20 problems, which will be released all at once, anytime before the submission deadline.

In the Tech Contest, participants are allowed to freely suggest new forensic analysis methods. In this project, you are more than welcome to offer us all kinds of fresh, new techniques that haven’t been published before. The goal is to identify new opportunities to help investigators discover clues in solving real cases. All submissions must include a detailed response that explains the type of information stored and how it can be reproduced.