• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.387-396
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• 2016

As the number of people using digital devices has increased, the digital forensic, which aims at finding clues for crimes in digital data, has been developed and become more important especially in court. Together with the development of the digital forensic, the anti-forensic which aims at thwarting the digital forensic has also been developed. As an example, with anti-forensic technology the criminal would delete an digital evidence without which the investigator would be hard to find any clue for crimes. In such a case, recovery techniques on deleted or damaged information will be very important in the field of digital forensic. Until now, even though EVTX(event log)-based recovery techniques on deleted files have been presented, but there has been no study to retrieve event log data itself, In this paper, we propose some recovery algorithms on deleted or damaged event log file and show that our recovery algorithms have high success rate through experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.1149-1152
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• 2004

컴퓨터가 현대 생활의 필수 도구로 자리잡으면서 컴퓨터를 매개로 이루어지는 범죄행위에 대하여 법적인 처벌 문제가 중요하게 대두되고 있다. 컴퓨터범죄를 형사적으로 처벌하기 위하여는 디지털증거의 증거능력과 증명력이 인정되어야만 한다. 하지만 디지털증거는 그 특성상 조작, 손상, 멸실의 우려가 높다. 디지털증거가 형사소송법상 유효한 증거로서의 증거능력을 인정 받기 위하여는 데이터의 변형 없이 수집하고 때로는 손상된 디지털 증거를 복구하여 원본과 동일하게 복사하여 정확히 분석한 후 제출되어야 한다. 이와 관련된 학문 전반을 컴퓨터포렌식이라고 하는데 국내법 혹은 국제법적으로 유효한 절차 및 수단에 따라 관련 증거들을 수집하여 함은 물론이고 과학적인 논거들로 입증하는 것이 또한 매우 중요하다. 현재 국내법상 디지털증거에 관한 입법이 없으므로 일반적인 증거증력에 관한 규정과 일부 판례를 차용하여 증거능력과 증명력을 갖춘 컴퓨터포렌식 절차를 제안 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.1351-1364
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• 2019

When SCADA is exposed to cyber threats and attacks, serious disasters can occur throughout society. This is because various security threats have not been considered when building SCADA. The bigger problem is that it is difficult to patch vulnerabilities quickly because of its availability. Digital forensics procedures and techniques need to be used to analyze and investigate vulnerabilities in SCADA systems in order to respond quickly against cyber threats and to prevent incidents. This paper addresses SCADA forensics taxonomy and research trends for effective digital forensics investigation on SCADA system. As a result, we have not been able to find any research that goes far beyond traditional digital forensics on procedures and methodologies. But it is meaningful to develop an approach methodology using the characteristics of the SCADA system, or an exclusive tool for SCADA. Analysis techniques mainly focused on PLC and SCADA network protocol. It is because the cyber threats and attacks targeting SCADA are mostly related to PLC or network protocol. Such research seems to continue in the future. Unfortunately, there is lack of discussion about the 'Evidence Capability' such as the preservation or integrity of the evidence extracting from SCADA system in the past researches.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.487-496
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• 2017

In MySQL InnoDB, there are two ways of storing data. One is to create a separate tablespace for each table and store it separately. Another is to store all table and index information in a single system tablespace. You can use this information to recover deleted data from the record. However, in most of the current database forensic studies, the former is actively researched and its structure is analyzed, whereas the latter is not enough to be used for forensics. Both approaches must be analyzed in terms of database forensics because their storage structures are different from each other. In this paper, we propose a method for recovering deleted records in a method of storing records in IBDATA file, which is a single system tablespace. First, we analyze the IBDATA file to reveal its structure. And introduce delete record recovery algorithm which extended to an unallocated page area which was not considered in the past. In addition, we show that the recovery rate is improved up to 68% compared with the existing method through verification using real data by implementing the algorithm as a tool.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.59-66
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• 2017

MySQL database is the second place in the market share of the current database. Especially InnoDB storage engine has been used in the default storage engine from the version of MySQL5.5. And many companies are using the MySQL database with InnoDB storage engine. Study on the structural features and the log of the InnoDB storage engine in the field of digital forensics has been steadily underway, but for how to restore on a record-by-record basis for the deleted data, has not been studied. In the process of digital forensic investigation, database administrators damaged evidence for the purpose of destruction of evidence. For this reason, it is important in the process of forensic investigation to recover deleted record in database. In this paper, We proposed the method of recovering deleted data on a record-by-record in database by analyzing the structure of MySQL InnoDB storage engine. And we prove this method by tools. This method can be prevented by database anti forensic, and used to recover deleted data when incident which is related with MySQL InnoDB database is occurred.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.671-685
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• 2023

By applying artificial intelligence to image editing technology, it has become possible to generate high-quality images with minimal traces of manipulation. However, since these technologies can be misused for criminal activities such as dissemination of false information, destruction of evidence, and denial of facts, it is crucial to implement strong countermeasures. In this study, image file and mobile forensic artifacts analysis were conducted for detecting image manipulation. Image file analysis involves parsing the metadata of manipulated images and comparing them with a Reference DB to detect manipulation. The Reference DB is a database that collects manipulation-related traces left in image metadata, which serves as a criterion for detecting image manipulation. In the mobile forensic artifacts analysis, packages related to image editing tools were extracted and analyzed to aid the detection of image manipulation. The proposed methodology overcomes the limitations of existing graphic feature-based analysis and combines with image processing techniques, providing the advantage of reducing false positives. The research results demonstrate the significant role of such methodology in digital forensic investigation and analysis. Additionally, We provide the code for parsing image metadata and the Reference DB along with the dataset of manipulated images, aiming to contribute to related research.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.1373-1383
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• 2017

Deduplication is a function to effectively manage data and improve the efficiency of storage space. When the deduplication is applied to the system, it makes it possible to efficiently use the storage space by dividing the stored file into chunks and storing only unique chunk. However, the commercial digital forensic tool do not support the file system analysis, and the original file extracted by the tool can not be executed or opened. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the process of generating chunks of data for a Windows Server 2012 system that can apply deduplication, and the structure of the resulting file(Chunk Storage). We also analyzed the case where chunks that are not covered in the previous study are compressed. Based on these results, we propose the method to collect deduplicated data and reconstruct the original file for digital forensic investigation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.175-182
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• 2008

2008년에 있었던 우리나라 금융기관과 정부기관에 대한 DoS 공격에 대한 연구이다. 실험실 환경에서 실제 DoS 공격 툴을 이용하여 공격을 실시한다. DoS 공격을 탐지하기 위하여 네트워크 상에서 Snort를 이용한 N-IDS를 설치하고, 패킷을 탐지하기 위한 Winpcap과 패킷의 저장 및 분석하기 위한 MySQL, HSC, .NET Framework 등을 설치한다. e-Watch 등의 패킷 분석 도구를 통해 해커의 DoS 공격에 대한 패킷량과 TCP, UDP 등의 정보, Port, MAC과 IP 정보 등을 분석한다. 본 논문 연구를 통하여 유비쿼터스 정보화 사회의 역기능인 사이버 DoS, DDoS 공격에 대한 자료를 분석하여 공격자에 대한 포렌식자료 및 역추적 분석 자료를 생성하여 안전한 인터넷 정보 시스템을 확보하는데 의의가 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.103-106
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• 2008

물리 메모리 영역에는 증거로 활용될 수 있는 프로세스 정보와 이름, ID, 비밀 번호, 전자 메일 주소 등의 정보를 담고 있다. 또 용의자가 행위를 감추기 위해 안티 포렌식 기법을 사용하여 저장매체 상에서 완전 삭제한 파일의 잔여 데이터를 취득할 수 있는 가능성이 있다. 하드 디스크와 같은 저장 매체의 경우 증거 수집 절차시 Hash와 같은 무결성 보장 과정을 거쳐 복사본의 유효성 확인이 가능하지만 물리 메모리 영역의 경우 운용 중인 시스템에서 발생하는 운영체제와 응용 프로그램의 동작에 의한 지속적인 데이터의 변화로 무결성 및 동일한 대상에서 수집되었다는 것을 확인하기 어렵고 소프트웨어 기반의 수집은 시스템의 상태를 변화 시킨다. 본 논문에서는 물리 메모리 영역 수집 기법을 알아보고 IEEE1394의 특성을 이용한 하드웨어 기반 물리 메모리 영역 수집 도구를 구현하였다. 또 수집된 물리 메모리 덤프를 이용하여 물리 메모리에서 얻을 수 있는 정보를 확인하고 동일 대상의 메모리와 다른 대상의 메모리를 비교하여 그 차이를 확인한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.417-428
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• 2020

With the rapid development of information and communication technology, mobile devices have become an essential tool in our lives. Mobile devices are used as important evidence in criminal proof, as they accumulate data simultaneously with PIM functions while working with users most of the time. The mobile forensics is a procedure for obtaining digital evidence from mobile devices and should be collected and analyzed in accordance with due process, just like other evidence, and the integrity of the evidence is essential because it has aspects that are easy to manipulate and delete. Also, the adoption of evidence relies on the judges' liberalism, which necessitates the presentation of generalized procedures. In this paper, a mobile forensics model is presented to ensure integrity through the generalization of procedures. It is expected that the proposed mobile forensics model will contribute to the formation of judges by ensuring the reliability and authenticity of evidence.