Android OS forensics is a procedure which involves, preserving, extracting, documenting and analyzing digital evidence from devices, which hosts Android OS. These Techniques encloses multiple phases, which includes insights of Android OS Hosting devices internal architecture, structure and digital data footprint analysis and close examination approaches. In today's world Android devices can handle multiple tasks with low computational time and memory consumption with greater speed, which requires a correct, optimized and task specific OS. In this growing market open source as well as proprietary programs or proprietary programs with illegal access and Android OS are readily available. People use untrusted sites to gain illegal access for proprietary programs. The usage of android devices is a rapidly growing sector which in turn involves an integral part of many cybercrimes and key targets for attacks. The necessity for a proper android forensics tool is an essential need for gathering evidence for conducting a proper action against crime. This paper briefly discusses various tools for collecting the digital evidence in the field.
Published In:IJCSN Journal Volume 9, Issue 4
Date of Publication : August 2020
Pages : 163-166
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Srivatsa Raju S :
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, B.M.S Institute of Technology & Management,
Bengaluru, India.
Anjan K Koundinya :
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, B.M.S Institute of Technology & Management,
Bengaluru, India.
Bharathi R :
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, B.M.S Institute of Technology & Management,
Bengaluru, India.
The main goal of this paper is to study and analyze the
most popular applications encrypted data storage locations
in Android devices. We discuss the challenges faced
during data extraction from the encrypted databases. The
forensic analysis of targeted application on their current
versions provides important insight to the forensic
investigators as well as the researchers. This work
will allow the investigators having a clear perspective
about where to look for the relevant data when any of
those applications involved in their case.
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