• Journal of Digital Forensics
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.39-54
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• 2018

Recently, discussions for the eradication of illegal shooting have been carried out in a socially-oriented way. The government has established comprehensive measures to eradicate cyber sexual violence crimes such as illegal shooting. Although the social interest in illegal shooting has increased, the illegal film shooting case is evolving more and more due to the development of information and communication technology. Applications that can hide confused videos are constantly circulating around the market and community sites. As a result, field investigators and professional analysts are experiencing difficulties in collecting and analyzing evidence. In this paper, we propose an evidence collection and analysis framework for illegal shooting cases in order to give practical help to illegal shooting investigation. We also proposed a system that can detect hidden applications, which is one of the main obstacles in evidence collection and analysis. We developed a detection tool to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed system and confirmed the feasibility and scalability of the system through experiments using commercially available concealed apps.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.353-363
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• 2021

As the Untact era is rapidly changing, collaboration tools are increasing their utilization and value as digital technologies for non-face-to-face work. While instant messenger-based collaboration tools support a variety of functions, crime and accident concerns are also increasing in proportion to their convenience, such as information leakage and security incidents. Meanwhile, the digital forensics perspective on collaborative tools is not enough, so forensics research is needed. This study analyzes significant artifacts in the two operating environments through Windows and Android forensics research on Microsoft Teams, the collaboration tool with the highest share in the world. Also, based on differences in artifacts and data attributes according to the operating environment, by applying 'differential forensic', we proved that the usefulness of evidence can be improved by presenting a complementary analysis method and timeline configuration through information linkage.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.111-122
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• 2018

Using OAuth protocol, third-party applications on the Android operating system use user's credentials or access tokens that have access authority on user's resources to gain user's account and personal information from account information providers. These credentials and token information are stored in the device by the OAuth data management method provided by the Android operating system. If this information is leaked, the attacker can use the leaked credential and token data to get user's personal data without login. This feature enables the digital forensic investigator to collect data directly from the remote server of the services used by the target of investigation in terms of collecting evidence data. Evidence data collected at a remote location can be a basis for secondary warranties and provide evidence which can be very important evidence when an attacker attempts to destroy evidence, such as the removal of an application from an Android device. In this paper, we analyze the management status of OAuth tokens in various Android operating system and device environment, and show how to collect data of various third party applications using it. This paper introduces a method of expanding the scope of data acquisition by collecting remote data of the services used by the subject of investigation from the viewpoint of digital forensics.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.827-839
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• 2012

A cell phone is very close to the user and therefore should be considered in digital forensic investigation. Recently, the proportion of smartphone owners is increasing dramatically. Unlike the feature phone, users can utilize various mobile application in smartphone because it has high-performance operating system (e.g., Android, iOS). As acquisition and analysis of user data in smartphone are more important in digital forensic purposes, smartphone forensics has been studied actively. There are two way to do smartphone forensics. The first way is to extract user's data using the backup and debugging function of smartphones. The second way is to get root permission, and acquire the image of flash memory. And then, it is possible to reconstruct the filesystem, such as YAFFS, EXT, RFS, HFS+ and analyze it. However, this methods are not suitable to recovery and analyze deleted data from smartphones. This paper introduces analysis techniques for fragmented flash memory pages in smartphones. Especially, this paper demonstrates analysis techniques on the image that reconstruction of filesystem is impossible because the spare area of flash memory pages does not exist and the pages in unallocated area of filesystem.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.30-40
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• 2016

Recently, the competition among global IT companies for the market occupancy of the IoT(Internet of Things) is fierce. Internet of Things are all the things and people around the world connected to the Internet, and it is becoming more and more intelligent. In addition, for the purpose of providing users with a customized services to variety of context-awareness, IoT platform and related research have been active area. In this paper, we analyze third party instant messengers of Windows 8 Style UI and propose a digital forensic methodology. And, we are well aware of the Android-based map and navigation applications. What we want to show is GPS information analysis by using the R. In addition, we propose a structured data analysis applying the hierarchical clustering model using GPS data in the digital forensics modules. The proposed model is expected to help support the IOT services and efficient criminal investigation process.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.137-148
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• 2011

In the past, the domestic research on mobile forensics has been limited to cell phones. Increasing use of smart phones, studies on smart phone forensic will be conducted actively in the future. In particular, the study on Android forensic is very important because Android smart phone market share is increasing rapidly. In this paper, we describe an implementation of an Android smart phone forensic tool based on logical analysis. Compared with Oxygen Forensic Suite 2010, this tool saves time it takes to perform Android smart phone forensic because this tool provides search feature and resource links for extracted media information. So far, no smart phone forensic tool is introduced in Korea. Accordingly, this tool would contribute to the advancement of the technology on smart phone forensic.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.855-861
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• 2013

Smartphone is very useful for use in the real life through the improvement of computing power, faster data rate and the variety of applications. On the other hand, using the smartphone has been exposed to a lot of crime. Also, it occurs attempting to delete a data of smartphone memory by anti-forensic tools. In this paper, we investigate and analyze the anti-forensic tools used in the Android smartphone to study the characteristics and techniques of anti-forensic tools. In addition, experiments are performed to validate the availability of anti-forensic tools by the Oxygen Forensic Suite that is a commercial forensic tool.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.101-105
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• 2012

Various social problems through violating personal information and privacy are growing with the rapid spread of smartphones. For this reason, variety of researches and technology developments to protect personal information being made. The smartphone, contains almost all of the personal information, can cause data spill at any time. Collecting or analyzing evidence is not an easy job with forensic analyzing tool. Android forensics research has been focused on techniques to collect and analyze data from non-volatile memory but research for volatile data is very slight. Android log is the non-volatile data that can be collected by volatile storage. It is enough to use as a material to track the usage of the Android phone because all of the recent driven records from system to application are stored. In this paper, we propose a method to respond to determining the existence of personal information leakage by filtering logs without forensic analysis tools.

• Journal of Digital Forensics
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2018

A random chat application is a type of social dating application that helps people find a lover or spouse by randomly connecting and providing services such as text, voice and video chat. Recently, there has been globally a rapid increase in its use due to the fact that it provides people to quick and convenient encounters at low cost. However, it is used as one of method to prostitute or to trade drugs and become a cause of violent crimes due to various criminal occurring after actual meeting between app users. For this reason, a random chat application is likely to provide proof of prostitution or drug trade and clues to arrest rape, kidnapping and murder suspects. Thus, it is necessary to analyse random chat applications from the viewpoint of digital forensics investigation, but there is no related research at all. Therefore, in this paper, we analyzed artifacts of 6 Korea random chat application's user behaviors; Ranchat, AngTalk, SsumgThing, DaTalk, EveryTalk and Sail. As a result, we found that it is remain on mobile device that time and contents of message transmission/reception, sender/receiver, friend profile and user account creation time when user is using the applications.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.893-906
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• 2023

Awareness that smartphones can be used as tools for criminal activity is prevalent in many organizations, but the functionally smartphone-like smartwatch's potential as a criminal tool is being overlooked. Considering this situation, this research verifies the possibility of information leakage through an insider's smartwatch in a situation where smartphones are controlled by security regulations and technologies, but smart watch are not. By analyzing information related application usage and Wi-Fi connection generated in the smartwatch during the verification process, forensic information and limitations are identified. Finally, this research proposes preventive methods to prepare for potential smartwatch-related crimes, and reconsiders awareness of the possibility of using smartwatches as criminal tools.