The forensics counterpart to CEH. Investigate digital crime scenes, preserve evidence, recover artefacts and write reports admissible in Malaysian courts.
⏱Duration: 5 days / 40 hrs
💻Format: Instructor-Led + iLabs
🌐Delivery: On-site · Virtual · Hybrid
✅Pass rate: 97%
📅Next intake: 16 June 2026
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Digital crime scene mastery
Acquire, preserve and analyse evidence forensically
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Disk and memory forensics
FTK, EnCase, Autopsy, Volatility — the analyst's toolkit
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Network and cloud forensics
Live capture, log analysis, AWS/Azure incident artefacts
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Court-admissible reports
Chain of custody, expert witness preparation, MY legal context
What this course is
CHFI is forensic discipline.
CHFI v11 is the global standard for digital forensics analysts. Where CEH teaches you how attackers operate, CHFI teaches you how to reconstruct what attackers did — with the rigour and chain of custody required for legal proceedings.
At Nexperts, our CHFI lead has served as expert witness in three Malaysian commercial dispute cases and worked on a Cybersecurity Malaysia incident response engagement. The course is taught with the procedural rigour those cases demanded.
Forensic findings are only as good as your chain of custody. Lose that, and you lose the case — and the case is what we are here to win.
The v11 update adds cloud forensics (AWS, Azure, GCP), modern endpoint artefact analysis, and IoT/mobile evidence handling. We teach all three with current Malaysian legal context throughout.
Who should take this course
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SOC analysts moving to IR
Incident response without forensics is incomplete. CHFI is the credential that closes that gap.
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Law enforcement IT
PDRM Cyber Crime, MCMC investigators — CHFI is the international peer-recognised credential.
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Bank and financial fraud teams
BNM-regulated entities require demonstrable forensic capabilities for incident reporting.
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Compliance and audit
Understand exactly what evidence quality your security team can produce.
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CEH alumni
Forensics is the natural defensive complement to ethical hacking.
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Final-year cybersecurity students
CHFI graduates are scarce — and high demand in MY law enforcement and consultancies.
Prerequisites
✓ CEH or 2+ years of cybersecurity experience
✓ Familiarity with Windows event logs and registry
✓ Basic Linux command-line fluency
✓ Understanding of TCP/IP networking
→ No CEH? Ask us about our CEH → CHFI dual track.
Course Curriculum
16 modules. From acquisition to court.
CHFI v11 is delivered as a full investigation arc — from initial response and acquisition through artefact analysis to expert witness preparation.
Hands-On iLabs
180 forensic labs. Real images. Real cases.
EC-Council iLabs serves you 180 forensic challenges — disk images, memory dumps, network captures and cloud log archives. Every artefact is a real-case derivative.
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Cold-Boot Acquisition
Image a running workstation without rebooting it. Preserve volatile RAM. Validate hashes.
Acquisition
02
Deleted File Recovery
Recover documents and emails deleted from an NTFS partition. Defend findings.
Recovery
03
Memory Forensics with Volatility
Identify malware, injected DLLs and exfiltration paths from a memory image.
Memory
04
Windows Registry Investigation
Build user activity timeline from registry hives — USB, MRU, ShimCache.
Registry
05
Network Capture Analysis
Reconstruct an attacker session from a 200MB pcap. Extract artefacts.
Network
06
Cloud Forensics — AWS
Compromised IAM role. Trace via CloudTrail. Identify data exfiltration to S3.
Cloud
07
Mobile Forensics
Extract artefacts from a locked Android device. Reconstruct messaging timeline.
Mobile
08
Forensic Report Writing
Take an investigation. Write a 12-page report admissible in Malaysian commercial court.
Reporting
09
Mock Cross-Examination
Defend your forensic findings under simulated cross-examination by an instructor.
CHFI 312-49 is a 4-hour, 150-question exam covering all 16 forensic modules. The exam emphasises procedural correctness — do you preserve the evidence properly, document the chain, follow the legal requirements?
CHFI 312-49 Exam
Questions150 multiple choice
Duration4 hours
Passing score70% (105/150)
FormatPearson VUE / EC-Council
Validity3 years (ECE renewal)
Industry avg pass rate~66% first attempt
Nexperts pass rate97% first attempt
Court & Legal Recognition
Malaysian admissibilityAligned with Evidence Act 1950 (s.90A)
Law enforcementRecognised by PDRM Cyber Crime, MCMC
BankingListed in BNM RMiT incident response baselines
Stacks withCEH → CHFI → CCSE / CCISO
DoD8140 approved digital forensic role
VoucherEC-Council exam voucher bundled
Career fitDFIR analyst, fraud investigator, expert witness
Our CHFI 3-Mock Programme
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Procedural Mock
End of week 1. Tests acquisition order and chain of custody. Average score: 64%.
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Artefact-Heavy Mock
Mid-course. Tests artefact identification and timeline reconstruction. Average score: 78%.
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Final Clearance
Full 150-question simulation. 84%+ before booking. Average score: 88%.
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Pass Rate
97% of our CHFI investigators pass on first attempt.
The industry average for CHFI first-attempt pass rate is around 66%. Our 97% comes from 180 hands-on iLabs, real Malaysian case-derived investigations, and an instructor who has served as expert witness in three commercial cases.
180 iLabs casesMock cross-examination97% first attemptMalaysian legal contextFree retake voucher
Why our pass rate is 97%
Industry average: ~66%
Most CHFI candidates fail on procedural questions — the order of volatility, the chain of custody, the legal authority. They learn artefacts but skip discipline.
Nexperts: 97%
We drill procedure first, artefacts second. We make you defend your findings under cross-examination. We don't book until your discipline is reflexive.
Your Certification Journey
CHFI completes the IR triangle.
CEH (offence) + CHFI (forensics) + ECIH (response) is the classic incident response triangle. From here you go management (CCISO) or specialise into expert-witness work.
Before this
CEH v13 AI
CEH gives you the attacker mindset. Without it, CHFI artefacts feel disconnected from intent.
Expected salary range after CHFI: RM 7,500 – RM 13,500/month for DFIR analyst and fraud investigator roles in Malaysia.
Student Reviews
What our CHFI graduates say.
4.9
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89 reviews
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"The mock cross-examination was the most uncomfortable hour of my professional career — and the most useful. I have since defended a real engagement in court and the patterns held."
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Naufal Faiz
Forensic Lead · BDO Malaysia
✓ Passed first attempt · 142 / 150
★★★★★
"I'd been doing IR informally for years. CHFI gave me the procedure and language to make my work admissible. Within a month, our IR reports went from 30 pages to 12 — and they were better."
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Kamilah Suhaimi
DFIR Analyst · RHB Bank
✓ Passed first attempt · 138 / 150
★★★★★
"Memory forensics with Volatility is now part of my weekly toolkit. Two weeks after CHFI, I caught a credential-dumping attack we'd missed for three months."
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Tony Yong
SOC Manager · KPMG MY
✓ Passed first attempt · 145 / 150
★★★★
"Court admissibility under the Malaysian Evidence Act was new to me — even after 8 years in security. I now sit on my company's data breach response committee."
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Suresh Pillai
Information Security Officer · Petronas
✓ Passed first attempt · 134 / 150
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