A Forensic approach to Perform Android Mobile Forensic Analysis and Locating Artifacts from Digital Evidence

Detection of Block Artifacts for Digital Forensic Analysis

Although the metadata, such as the header, of a piece of media carries useful information, the metadata may be tampered with for various purposes. It is therefore desirable in the context of forensic analysis that investigators are able to infer properties and information about a piece of media directly from its content without any reference to the metadata. The block size of the block operatio...

Evaluating the privacy of Android mobile applications under forensic analysis

In this paper, we investigate and evaluate through experimental analysis the possibility of recovering authentication credentials of mobile applications from the volatile memory of Android mobile devices. Throughout the carried experiments and analysis, we have, exclusively, used open-source and free forensic tools. Overall, the contribution of this paper is threefold. First, it thoroughly, exa...

Book Review: Challenges to Digital Forensic Evidence

Fundamentals of Digital Forensic Evidence

Digital forensic evidence consists of exhibits, each consisting of a sequence of bits, presented by witnesses in a legal matter, to help jurors establish the facts of the case and support or refute legal theories of the case. The exhibits should be introduced and presented and/or challenged by properly qualified people using a properly applied methodology that addresses the legal theories at is...

Mobile Phone Forensic Analysis

During the past decade, technological advances in mobile phones and the development of smart phones have led to increased use and dependence on the mobile phone. The explosion of its use has led to problems such as fraud, criminal use and identity theft, which have led to the need for mobile phone forensic analysis. In this regard, the authors discuss mobile phone forensic analysis, what it mea...