• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.1397-1404
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• 2017

When a digital forensic investigation is conducted on a damaged storage medium, recovery is performed using a recovery tool. But the result of each recovery tool is different depending on the tools. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and use the performance and limitations of the tool for accurate investigation. In this paper, we propose a scenario considering the disk recognition type such as MBR, GPT and the structural characteristics of FAT32 and NTFS filesystem to verify the performance of the partition recovery tool. And then We validate the existing tools with the data set built on the scenarios.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.460-463
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• 2014

클라우드 컴퓨팅의 많은 장점에도 불구하고 클라우드 컴퓨팅은 보안이슈는 줄어들지 않으며, 특히 디지털 포렌식은 실질적인 기능을 수행하기에 미비한 실정이다. 최근, 다양한 사이버 범죄가 증가하면서 클라우드 컴퓨팅 환경은 사이버 범죄에 노출되어 있으며 악의적인 공격의 위험을 가지고 있다. 클라우드 포렌식은 자원이 가상공간에 존재할 수 있고, 증거 데이터가 물리적으로 분산되어 있기 때문에 기존의 포렌식 수사와는 다르게 접근해야 한다. 또한, 클라우드 기반 포렌식에서 획득 가능한 증거 데이터에 대한 정의가 되어 있지 않아서 증거 데이터를 수집하는데 어려움을 겪는다. 이에 본 논문에서는 오픈스택 플랫폼을 이용한 클라우드 환경을 구축하고, 클라우드 플랫폼 기반 포렌식을 위해 획득 가능한 로그 데이터에 대해 정리하고, 실제 획득 가능한 로그를 수집 및 분석하고, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 플랫폼기반 포렌식의 한계점과 해결방안을 알아본다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.79-91
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• 2010

In digital forensics, the creation time, last modified time, and last accessed time of a file or folder are important factors that can indicate events that have affected a computer system. The form of the time information varies with the file system, depending on the user's actions such as copy, transfer, or network transport of files. Specific changes of the time information may be of considerable help in analyzing the user's actions in the computer system. This paper analyzes changes in the time information of files and folders for different operations of the NTFS and attempts to reconstruct the user's actions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.49-60
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• 2011

Instant Messenger is one of the most popular communication service when translating message or data each other through Internet. For digital crime investigation, therefore, it is obviously important to obtain communication trace and contents derived from Instant Messenger. This is because that gathering traditional communication histories also have been important until now. However, extracting communication trace and contents are not easy because they are generally encrypted or obfuscated in local system, futhermore, sometimes they are located at server computer for Instant Messenger. This paper researches on extracting communication histories against NateOn, BuddyBuddy, Yahoo! messenger and Mi3 messenger, and obtaining user password or bypassing authentication system to Instant Messenger Service when a user use auto-login option.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.49-59
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• 2012

Throughout developing digital technology, reproduction of image is growing better day by day. And at the same time, diverse image editing softwares are developed to manage images easily. In the process of editing images, those programs could delete or modify EXIF files which have the original image information; therefore images without the origin source are widely spread on the web site after editing. This matter could affect analysis of images due to the distortion of originality. Especially in the court of law, the source of evidence should be expressed clearly; therefore digital image EXIF file without deletion or distortion could not be the objective evidence. In this research, we try to trace the identification of a digital camera in order to solve digital images originality, and also we focus on lens distortion correction algorism which is used in digital image processing. Lens distortion correction uses mapping algorism, and at this moment it also uses interpolation algorism to prevent aliasing artifact and reconstruction artifact. At this point interpolation shows the similar mapping pattern; therefore we want to find out the interpolation evidence. We propose a minimum filter algorism in order to detect interpolation pattern and adjust the same minimum filter coefficient in two areas; one has interpolation and the second has no interpolation. Throughout DFT, we confirm frequency character between each area. Based on this result, we make the final detection map by using differences between two areas. In other words, thereby the area which has the interpolation caused by mapping is adjusted using minimum filter for detection algorism; the second area which has no interpolation tends to different frequency character.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.223-232
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• 2012

Recently, the leakage of personal information and privacy piracy increase. The victimized case of the malicious object rapidlies increase. Most of users use the windows operating system. Recently, the Windows 7 operating system was announced. Therefore, we need to study for the intrusion response technique at the next generation operate system circumstances. The accident response technique developed till now was mostly implemented around the Windows XP or the Windows Vista. However, a new vulnerability problem will be happen in the breach process of reaction as the Windows 7 operating system is announced. In the windows operating system, the system incident event needs to be efficiently analyzed. For this, the event information generated in a system needs to be visually analyzed around the time information or the security threat weight information. Therefore, in this research, we analyzed visually about the system event information generated in the Windows 7 operating system. And the system analyzing the system incident through the visual event information analysis process was designed and implemented. In case of using the system developed in this study the more efficient accident analysis is expected to be possible.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.223-230
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• 2013

Recently, a large number of corporations are adopting cloud solution in order to reduce IT-related costs. By the way, Digital Trace should have admissibility to be accepted as digital evidence in court, and integrity is one of the factors for admissibility. In this context, this research implemented integrity verification test to VM Data which was collected by well-known private cloud solutions such as Citrix, VMware, and MS Hyper-V. This paper suggests the effective way to verify integrity of VM data collected in private cloud computing environment based on the experiment and introduces the error that EnCase fails to mount VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) files properly.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.89-100
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• 2011

Physical memory analysis has been an issue on a field of live forensic analysis in digital forensics until now. It is very useful to make the result of analysis more reliable, because record of user behavior and data can be founded on physical memory although process is hided. But most memory analysis focuses on windows based system. Because the diversity of target system to be analyzed rises up, it is very important to analyze physical memory based on other OS, not Windows. Mac OS X, has second market share in Operating System, is operated by loading kernel image to physical memory area. In this paper, We propose a methodology for physical memory analysis on Mac OS X using symbol information in kernel image, and acquire a process information, mounted device information, kernel information, kernel extensions(eg. KEXT) and system call entry for detecting system call hooking. In additional to the methodology, we prove that physical memory analysis is very useful though experimental study.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.143-154
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• 2011

SQLite is a small sized database engine largely used in embedded devices and local application software. The availability of portable devices, such as smartphones, has been extended over the recent years and has contributed to growing adaptation of SQLite. This implies a high likelihood of digital evidences acquired during forensic investigations to include SQLite database files. Where intentional deletion of sensitive data can be made by a suspect, forensic investigators need to recover deleted records in SQLite at the best possible. This study analyzes data management rules used by SQLite and the structure of deleted data in the system, and in turn suggests a recovery Tool of deleted data. Further, the study examines major SQLite suited software as it validates feasible possibility of deleted data recovery.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.167-175
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• 2011

As recent emergence of smart phones, mobile services are growing in various forms. Many companies released smart phones of various operating systems such as Window Mobile, Android and iOS. Currently, most popular smart phone operating systems are Android and iOS. Due to the various features of these smart phone, they can be employed to various crimes. From the point of view of digital forensics, this paper analyzes the evidence data which needs to be collected in the smart phone, and implements the evidence analysis tool. By using this tool, it can reduce the time and effort for collecting and analyzing the evidence of the smart phone.