• 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.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.267-275
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• 2017

This research is about the development of e-forensic tool that extract & analyze different forms of digital evidence that individuals come across in a disaster scene. The tool utilizes digital forensic techniques which makes the tool efficient in any disaster analysis situation. In order for the forensic evidence to be selected as legal evidence, the evidence needs to be proven that it is in its original state with no forgery involved. This is where the e-forensic tool comes in, as its ability to collect digital evidence during investigation has proven; that the tool can keep the evidence in its original state and increase the integrity by generating hash TAG and adding the forensic evidence to a password encoded file.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.178-192
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• 2021

File system forensics typically focus on the contents or timestamps of a file, and it is common to work around file/directory centers. But to recover a deleted file on the disk or use a carving technique to find and connect partial missing content, the evidence must be analyzed using cluster-centered analysis. Forensics tools such as EnCase, TSK, and X-ways, provide a basic ability to get information about disk clusters, but these are not the core functions of the tools. Alternatively, Sysinternals' DiskView tool provides a more intuitive visualization function, which makes it easier to obtain information around disk clusters. In addition, most current tools are for Windows. There are very few forensic analysis tools for MacOS, and furthermore, cluster analysis tools are very rare. In this paper, we developed a tool named FACT (Forensic Analyzer based Cluster Information Tool) for analyzing the state of clusters in a HFS+ file system, for digital forensics. The FACT consists of three features, a Cluster based analysis, B-tree based analysis, and Directory based analysis. The Cluster based analysis is the main feature, and was basically developed for cluster analysis. The FACT tool's cluster visualization feature plays a central role. The FACT tool was programmed in two programming languages, C/C++ and Python. The core part for analyzing the HFS+ filesystem was programmed in C/C++ and the visualization part is implemented using the Python Tkinter library. The features in this study will evolve into key forensics tools for use in MacOS, and by providing additional GUI capabilities can be very important for cluster-centric forensics analysis.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.72-80
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• 2016

Recently, IM(Instant Messenger) of KakaoTalk is being used on smart devices such as smartphones. Because IM service can carry user and/or suspector's various information including life style, geographical position, psychology and crime history, forensic analysis on IM service is desirable. But, forensic analysis for KakaoTalk is not well studied yet. This paper studies a proper forensic method for KakaoTalks, finds artifacts location, reconstruct the list of contacts and the chronology of the messages that have been exchanged by users. Proposed methodology and analyzed information can provide a basic platform for forensic tool.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.15-20
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• 2019

Fundamental processes in digital forensic investigation - such as disk imaging - were developed when digital investigation was relatively young. As digital forensic processes and procedures matured, these fundamental tools, that are the pillars of the reset of the data processing and analysis phases of an investigation, largely stayed the same. This work is a study of modern digital forensic imaging software tools. Specifically, we will examine the feature sets of modern digital forensic imaging tools, as well as their development and release cycles to understand patterns of fundamental tool development. Based on this survey, we show the weakness in current digital investigation fundamental software development and maintenance over time. We also provide recommendations on how to improve fundamental tools.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1421-1433
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• 2015

For an accurate analysis through the forensic of digital devices and computer, it is a very important validation of the reliability of digital forensic tools. To verify the reliability of the tool, it is necessary to research and development of the data set to be input to the tool. In many-used Windows operating system of the computer, there is a Window forensic artifacts associated with time and system behavior. In this paper, we developed a set of data in the Windows operating system to be able to analyze all of the two Windows artifacts and we conducted a test with published digital forensic tools. Therefore, the developed data set presents the use of the following method. First, artefacts education for growing ability can be analyzed acts standards. Secondly, the purpose of tool tests for verifying the reliability of digital forensics. Lastly, recyclability for new artifact analysis.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.5 no.11
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• pp.427-438
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• 2016

Car blackboxes record the information and status of driving. Since blackboxes are commonly used in daily life, the usage of video data recorded from blackboxes is increasing for investigating. Investigators use a own analysis tool suitable for their blackbox provided by the manufacturer in order to check the data. But the tools are not enough to use in the digital forensic analysis because they are dependent on a specific model of blackbox and provides ungeneralized functions. Moreover, if the manufacturer is bankrupt, then their own tools can not be obtained also. Therefore, the way data are stored in the blackboxes which are now in the market are investigated and the features and limitations which have blackbox's own analysis tools are checked. And a comprehensive tool for the analysis of blackboxes is designed and implemented as in this paper.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.99-104
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• 2012

The digital forensics are new kinds of security that investigate and verificate fact relation about activities based on digital data. In this paper, we implemented digital forensic tool that can be used in collecting, analyzing, and reporting evidences. This tool support intuitional GUI that everybody can analyze easily. And a simple operation can collect and analyze active data. Also, we can decrease much time and endeavor by using this forensic tool that support reliable data.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.95-102
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• 2016

Computer security incident such as confidential information leak and data destruction are constantly growing and it becomes threat to information in digital devices. To respond against the incident, digital forensic techniques are also developing to help digital incident investigation. With the development of digital forensic technology, a variety of forensic artifact has been developed to trace the behavior of users. Also, a diversity of forensic tool has been developed to extract information from forensic artifact. However, there is a issue that information from forensic tools has its own forms. To solve this problem, it needs to process data when it is output from forensic tools. Then it needs to compare and analyze processed data to identify how data is related each other and interpret the implications. To reach this, it calls for effective method to store and output data in the course of data processing. This paper aims to propose DFIOC (Digital Forensic Indicators Of Compromise) that is capable of transcribing a variety of forensic artifact information effectively during incident analysis and response. DFIOC, which is XML based format, provides "Evidence" to represent various forensic artifacts in the incident investigation. Furthermore, It provides "Forensic Analysis" to report forensic analysis result and also gives "Indicator" to investigate the trace of incidence quickly. By logging data into one sheet in DFIOC format for forensic analysis process, it is capable of avoiding unnecessary data processing. Lastly, since collected information is recorded in a normalized format, data input and output becomes much easier as well as it will be convenient to use for identification of collected information and analysis of data relationship.

• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.327-333
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• 2022

The DNA profiling of short tandem repeat (STR) markers is a powerful tool for forensic identification and forensic paternity testing. However, STR loci are susceptible to mutation that cause mismatches between parents and children when paternity is tested. Herein, we examined paternity disputes with 23 autosomal STR loci using two commercial human identification kits and revealed successive mismatches at the D13S317 locus across three generations of a Korean family. Additionally, we investigated 12 X-chromosomal STRs and discovered an inconsistency at the DXS10148 locus between the father and daughter of the same Korean family. Furthermore, we confirmed STR genotypes at the D13S317 and DXS10148 loci of the family using sequencing analysis. Consequently, we identified a successive single-step mutation at the D13S317 locus and one single-step mutation at the DXS10148 locus in three generations of the Korean family. Therefore, this case study may be useful for interpreting and understanding forensic paternity tests.