Human Behavior In Digital Forensics

I’ve always been a fan of books or shows where someone follow clues and develops an overall picture to lead them to their end goal. I’ve always like the “hot on the trail” mysteries, particularly when the clues are assembled in a way to understand that the antagonist was going to do next, what their next likely move would be. Interestingly enough, a lot of the shows I’ve watched have been centered around the FBI, shows like “The X-Files”, and “Criminal Minds”. I know intellectually that these shows are contrived, but assembling a trail of technical bread crumbs to develop a profile of human behavior is a fascinating idea, and something I’ve tried to bring to my work in DFIR. 

Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent and Behavioral Profiler Cameron Malin recently shared that his newest endeavor, Modus Cyberandi, has gone live! The main focus of his effort, cyber behavior profiling, is right there at the top of the main web page. In fact, the main web page even includes a brief history of behavioral profiling.

This seems to be similar to Len Opanashuk‘s endeavor, Motives Unlocked, which leads me to wonder, is this a thing? 

Is this something folks are interested in?

Apparently ,it is, as there’s research to suggest that this is, in fact, the case. Consider this research paper describing behavioral evidence analysis as a “paradigm shif

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