The disclosure of an Android smartphone’s digital footprint respecting the Instant Messaging utilizing Skype and MSN

Chu, Hai-Cheng; Lo, Chi-Hsiang; Chao, Han‐Chieh

doi:10.1007/s10660-013-9116-1

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“…Another study on the Android Viber app revealed that the sent/received instant messages stored in RAM can be recovered even after restarting the phone , and similar findings were identified for received messages in the Skype and MSN apps . Other related works in forensic analysis of mobile apps include those that examined WhatsApp and Viber on Android; social networking apps on the Android and iOS platforms ; and cloud storage services .…”

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An Evidence‐Based Forensic Taxonomy of Windows Phone Communication Apps

Cahyani

Martini

Choo

et al. 2017

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Communication apps can be an important source of evidence in a forensic investigation (e.g., in the investigation of a drug trafficking or terrorism case where the communications apps were used by the accused persons during the transactions or planning activities). This study presents the first evidence-based forensic taxonomy of Windows Phone communication apps, using an existing two-dimensional Android forensic taxonomy as a baseline. Specifically, 30 Windows Phone communication apps, including Instant Messaging (IM) and Voice over IP (VoIP) apps, are examined. Artifacts extracted using physical acquisition are analyzed, and seven digital evidence objects of forensic interest are identified, namely: Call Log, Chats, Contacts, Locations, Installed Applications, SMSs and User Accounts. Findings from this study would help to facilitate timely and effective forensic investigations involving Windows Phone communication apps.

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Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 75%

An Evidence‐Based Forensic Taxonomy of Windows Phone Communication Apps

Cahyani

Martini

Choo

et al. 2017

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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“…Strings is commonly employed for this task as it supports large raw files, hexadecimal, ASCII, Unicode, and regular expressions. Other memory analysis tools used to conduct memory analysis in the literature include FTK toolkit [25,78,80] and EnCase [37,59].…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Gupta,

Oladimeji,

Varol

et al. 2023

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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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“…In the study of Skype and MSN apps, Chu, Lo were able to locate the target strings in the Android device's memory, even after the devices were rebooted. In the investigation of the Android Viber app, Chu, Yang were able to create an image of the memory and recover the received and sent IMs using the sender's and receiver's mobile numbers.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Android Communication App Forensic Taxonomy

Azfar

Choo

Liu

2016

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Due to the popularity of Android devices and applications (apps), Android forensics is one of the most studied topics within mobile forensics. Communication apps, such as instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP), are one popular app category used by mobile device users, including criminals. Therefore, a taxonomy outlining artifacts of forensic interest involving the use of Android communication apps will facilitate the timely collection and analysis of evidentiary materials from such apps. In this paper, 30 popular Android communication apps were examined, where a logical extraction of the Android phone images was collected using XRY, a widely used mobile forensic tool. Various information of forensic interest, such as contact lists and chronology of messages, was recovered. Based on the findings, a two-dimensional taxonomy of the forensic artifacts of the communication apps is proposed, with the app categories in one dimension and the classes of artifacts in the other dimension. Finally, the artifacts identified in the study of the 30 communication apps are summarized using the taxonomy. It is expected that the proposed taxonomy and the forensic findings in this paper will assist forensic investigations involving Android communication apps.

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The disclosure of an Android smartphone’s digital footprint respecting the Instant Messaging utilizing Skype and MSN

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

An Evidence‐Based Forensic Taxonomy of Windows Phone Communication Apps

An Evidence‐Based Forensic Taxonomy of Windows Phone Communication Apps

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

An Android Communication App Forensic Taxonomy

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