Forensic artifacts of the ChatON Instant Messaging application

Author

Iqbal, Azlan ; Marrington, Andrew ; Baggili, Ibrahim

Author_Institution

Athena Labs., Zayed Univ., Dubai, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2013

fDate

21-22 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Instant Messaging (IM) is one of the most used types of applications across all digital devices, and is an especially popular feature on smartphones. This research is about the artifacts left by Samsung´s ChatON IM application, which is a multi-platform IM application. In this work, we acquired forensic images of a Samsung Galaxy Note device running Android 4.1 and an iPhone running iOS 6. The acquired images were analyzed and the data relevant to the ChatON application were identified. This research resulted is a map of the digital evidence left by ChatON on these mobile devices which assists digital forensics practitioners and researchers in the process of locating and recovering digital evidence from ChatON.

Keywords

digital forensics; electronic messaging; image processing; mobile computing; smart phones; Android 4.1; ChatON IM application; ChatON instant messaging; Samsung Galaxy Note device; digital evidence; digital forensics; forensic artifact; iOS 6; iPhone; mobile device; multiplatform IM application; smartphone; Androids; Databases; Forensics; Humanoid robots; Instant messaging; Smart phones; ChatON; Digital Forensics; IM; Instant Messaging; Mobile Forensics; Small Scale Digital Devices; artifacts;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE), 2013 Eighth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SADFE.2013.6911538

Filename

6911538