• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.12-22
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• 2024

With the rapid increase in digital data in modern society, digital forensics plays a crucial role, and file type identification is one of its integral components. Research on the development of identification models utilizing artificial intelligence is underway to identify file types swiftly and accurately. However, existing studies do not support the identification of file types with high domestic usage rates, making them unsuitable for use within the country. Therefore, this paper proposes a more accurate file type identification model using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Gated Recurrent Units (GRU). To overcome limitations of existing methods, the proposed model demonstrates superior performance on the FFT-75 dataset, effectively identifying file types with high domestic usage rates such as HWP, ALZ, and EGG. The model's performance is validated by comparing it with three existing research models (CNN-CO, FiFTy, CNN-LSTM). Ultimately, the CNN and GRU based file type identification and classification model achieved 68.2% accuracy on 512-byte file fragments and 81.4% accuracy on 4096-byte file fragments.