please assist with this digital forensic study case:

Provide the detailed step on how best to solve this case. $($how can I share the Kidnap$\_$Victim$\_$Laptop.E$01$ image for your analysis?$)$

Case: The son of a prominent businessman has been kidnapped. He is a student at a university in the city and you are told that he is very fond of technology especially computers. It is also noted that the student $($besides having a fair share of sponsorship from his parents$)$ had a side hustle to supplement his income at the university. You and your colleagues have been hired to solve this case as digital forensics investigators. Luckily, you have access to the student's laptop which was imaged already using the EnCase Format.F$01$ to give as image Kidnap$\_$Victim$\_$Laptop.E$01$ for your analysis.

Use the following image and suggested tools in this case.

Suggested tools for the case analysis

$-$ Autopsy

$-$ Password cracking tool e$.$g$.$ John the Ripper

$-$ Gaberchef

Case $1$ Activities: University Student Kidnapping Case

By stating your plans and procedures, outline how you and your team were able to find the identify the kidnapper$($s$)$ in this gase Kqu are to document and tag any notable$/$suspicious files and activities with appropriate comments for your report as well as for other investigators to use, for example, one of the zipped files in this case is encrypted and contains information of great value, you need decrypt it$,$ tag and comment on it$.$

Other activities $\backslash (\backslash$underline$\{$G$\}\backslash )$ answers to questions$)$ to include in your report among others include $($note you are not only limited to these activities in solving your case$)$

$-$ Note the users of the laptop, what operating system$($s$)$ they are using and interesting activities they are carrying out useful for solving the case.

$-$ Note and comment on any mismatches in file extensions and content.

$-$ Note archived$/$encrypted files of interest, tag and comment on them.

$-$ Note deleted files of interest, tag and comment on them.

$-$ Note files in slack space of interest, tag and comment on them.

$-$ Note encrypted files of interest, what encryption was used to encrypt them. Can you decrypt them?

$-$ Are there any URLs used$/$visited by the student that are suspicious or of note to the case? List them and give reasons why they are suspicious. Check if there are any that they could have used in their side hustle.

$-$ Check any Bitcoin wallets the student used for his elicit activities.

$-$ The student kept a database of sales of his elicit activities $($drugs$),$ Note which database contains information about the products sold comment on which ones were best sellers for specific months.

$-$ Note the user accounts used on the laptop. Document their association with social media sites like Twitter, WhatsApp etc. if any.

$-$ Note any encrypted zipped files of interest, use the $10$ million password file in the laptop to conduct a dictionary attack to find its password and decrypt it$.$ What is its value?

$-$ Is there evidence that the student was undercutting his supplier $($boss$)?$ Identify what Bitcoin account $($wallet$)$ the student used to hide his sales.

$-$ What is the name and contact details of the "boss"?

$-$ What threat did the student receive from his boss about his under dealings?