Author URLs
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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Subject: LCSH
Cyber forensics, Computer forensics, Smartphones
Disciplines
Computer Engineering | Computer Sciences | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Forensic Science and Technology | Information Security
Abstract
In this research we forensically acquire and analyze the device-stored data and network traffic of 20 popular instant messaging applications for Android. We were able to reconstruct some or the entire message content from 16 of the 20 applications tested, which reflects poorly on the security and privacy measures employed by these applications but may be construed positively for evidence collection purposes by digital forensic practitioners. This work shows which features of these instant messaging applications leave evidentiary traces allowing for suspect data to be reconstructed or partially reconstructed, and whether network forensics or device forensics permits the reconstruction of that activity. We show that in most cases we were able to reconstruct or intercept data such as: passwords, screenshots taken by applications, pictures, videos, audio sent, messages sent, sketches, profile pictures and more.
DOI
10.1016/j.diin.2015.05.009
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Repository Citation
Walnycky, Daniel; Baggili, Ibrahim; Marrington, Andrew; Moore, Jason; and Breitinger, Frank, "Network and Device Forensic Analysis of Android Social-messaging Applications" (2015). Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications. 4.
https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/electricalcomputerengineering-facpubs/4
Publisher Citation
Walnycky, D., Baggili, I., Marrington, A., Moore, J., & Breitinger, F. (2015). Network and device forensic analysis of Android social-messaging applications. The Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual DFRWS Conference. Digital Investigation 14, Supplement 1, S77–S84.
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Comments
The material published in the DFRWS Conference Proceedings is made available through a license under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Dr. Baggili was appointed to the University of New Haven's Elder Family Endowed Chair in 2015.