Discord Forensics: The Logs Keep Growing

Moffitt, Kyle; Karabiyik, Umit; Hutchinson, Shinelle; Yoon, Yung Han

doi:10.1109/ccwc51732.2021.9376133

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“…To our understanding, only a limited number of studies have delved into digital forensic analysis specifically focusing on the Discord application with no extensive research found on android and the lack of research on iOS platforms. Additionally, there is a notable absence of research comprehensively addressing memory, network, and storage forensic analysis on both Windows and Linux operating systems which is what we are addressing in this research [20,29].…”

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A holistic digital forensic analysis of Discord – Storage, memory, and network perspectives

Gupta,

Lanka,

Varol

2024

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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In the last decade, the market share and user base of social media applications have witnessed significant growth. However, this surge in popularity has inadvertently drawn the attention of criminals aiming to exploit these platforms for illicit activities. The forensic examination of these applications emerges as a pivotal avenue for uncovering valuable insights into criminal behavior and identifying suspects. Discord, a social media platform, has become a significant focal point for such illicit activities. In this paper, we examine the remnants of Discord on both Windows and Linux operating systems, employing storage, memory, and network analysis techniques to review the remnants of Discord. Our investigation reveals a range of crucial artifacts that have been successfully recovered across all three areas of analysis, including login and payment details, chat history, account information, and much more. Collectively, these artifacts constitute a valuable resource for forensic investigations, allowing the reconstruction of most of the user's activity.

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A holistic digital forensic analysis of Discord – Storage, memory, and network perspectives

Gupta,

Lanka,

Varol

2024

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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“…These artifacts are essential components of digital forensic investigations and provide valuable evidence that can be used to reconstruct events, analyze user behavior, and establish a timeline of digital activities. Many researchers aim to retrieve artifacts when conducting digital forensic analysis of social media applications [26][27][28][29][30][31][32]60,65,66,69,137,147].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One of the more common databases seen in this review is LevelDB, which is an open-source on-disk key-value store developed by Google. LevelDb is used by Microsoft Teams [31], Discord [29,30], Riot.im [30], and others. These database files contain extensive information about the user and their activities.…”

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A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research Directions

Gupta,

Oladimeji,

Varol

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Social media applications have been ubiquitous in modern society, and their usage has grown exponentially over the years. With the widespread adoption of these platforms, social media has evolved into a significant origin of digital evidence in the domain of digital forensics. The increasing utilization of social media has caused an increase in the number of studies focusing on artifact (digital remnants of data) recovery from these platforms. As a result, we aim to present a comprehensive survey of the existing literature from the past 15 years on artifact recovery from social media applications in digital forensics. We analyze various approaches and techniques employed for artifact recovery, structuring our review on well-defined analysis focus categories, which are memory, disk, and network. By scrutinizing the available literature, we determine the trends and commonalities in existing research and further identify gaps in existing literature and areas of opportunity for future research in this field. The survey is expected to provide a valuable resource for academicians, digital forensics professionals, and researchers by enhancing their comprehension of the current state of the art in artifact recovery from social media applications. Additionally, it highlights the need for continued research to keep up with social media’s constantly evolving nature and its consequent impact on digital forensics.

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“…Memory forensic techniques increase day by day from a string search to deep search, memory structural analysis, operating systems analysis, etc. Several researchers worked on different technologies of computer forensics such as: memory forensics [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], volatile memory [35], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], log forensics [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47], operating system [48], [49], [50], [51], [52], [53] etc. Table 2 presents the literature review of current research work in the areas of memory forensics, computer forensics, IoT forensics, and log forensics.…”

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“…Instant messenger forensics to examine pieces of evidence collected through instant messenger applications, chat, and shared data. Media/USB/Memory card forensics helps analyze removable media investigations-Malware forensics helps identify malware objects and their behavior [105], [46], [106], [107]. Some other computer forensics domains, such as cloud forensic are used to examine crimes committed using cloud platforms, and database forensics help investigate data storage and privacy-related crimes [24], [108].…”

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A Comprehensive Survey on Computer Forensics: State-of-the-Art, Tools, Techniques, Challenges, and Future Directions

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With the alarmingly increasing rate of cybercrimes worldwide, there is a dire need to combat cybercrimes timely and effectively. Cyberattacks on computing machines leave certain artifacts on target device storage that can reveal the identity and behavior of cyber-criminals if processed and analyzed intelligently. Forensic agencies and law enforcement departments use several digital forensic toolkits, both commercial and open-source, to examine digital evidence. The proposed research survey focuses on identifying the current state-of-the-art digital forensics concepts in existing research, sheds light on research gaps, presents a detailed introduction of different computer forensic domains and forensic toolkits used for computer forensics in the current era. The proposed survey also presents a comparative analysis based on the tool's characteristics to facilitate investigators in tool selection during the forensics process. Finally, the proposed survey identifies and derives current challenges and future research directions in computer forensics.

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Discord Forensics: The Logs Keep Growing

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

A holistic digital forensic analysis of Discord – Storage, memory, and network perspectives

A holistic digital forensic analysis of Discord – Storage, memory, and network perspectives

A Comprehensive Survey on Artifact Recovery from Social Media Platforms: Approaches and Future Research Directions

A Comprehensive Survey on Computer Forensics: State-of-the-Art, Tools, Techniques, Challenges, and Future Directions

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