The smart home platform integrates with Internet of Things(IoT)devices,smartphones,and cloud servers,enabling seamless and convenient services.It gathers and manages extensive user data,including personal information,...The smart home platform integrates with Internet of Things(IoT)devices,smartphones,and cloud servers,enabling seamless and convenient services.It gathers and manages extensive user data,including personal information,device operations,and patterns of user behavior.Such data plays an essential role in criminal inves-tigations,highlighting the growing importance of specialized smart home forensics.Given the rapid advancement in smart home software and hardware technologies,many companies are introducing new devices and services that expand the market.Consequently,scalable and platform-specific forensic research is necessary to support efficient digital investigations across diverse smart home ecosystems.This study thoroughly examines the core components and structures of smart homes,proposing a generalized architecture that represents various operational environments.A three-stage smart home forensics framework is introduced:(1)analyzing application functions to infer relevant data,(2)extracting and processing data from interconnected devices,and(3)identifying data valuable for investigative purposes.The framework’s applicability is validated using testbeds from Samsung SmartThings and Xiaomi Mi Home platforms,offering practical insights for real-world forensic applications.The results demonstrate that the proposed forensic framework effectively acquires and classifies relevant digital evidence in smart home platforms,confirming its practical applicability in smart home forensic investigations.展开更多
In this research,we developed a plugin for our automated digital forensics framework to extract and preserve the evidence from the Android and the IOS-based mobile phone application,Instagram.This plugin extracts pers...In this research,we developed a plugin for our automated digital forensics framework to extract and preserve the evidence from the Android and the IOS-based mobile phone application,Instagram.This plugin extracts personal details from Instagram users,e.g.,name,user name,mobile number,ID,direct text or audio,video,and picture messages exchanged between different Instagram users.While developing the plugin,we identified resources available in both Android and IOS-based devices holding key forensics artifacts.We highlighted the poor privacy scheme employed by Instagram.This work,has shown how the sensitive data posted in the Instagram mobile application can easily be reconstructed,and how the traces,as well as the URL links of visual messages,can be used to access the privacy of any Instagram user without any critical credential verification.We also employed the anti-forensics method on the Instagram Android’s application and were able to restore the application from the altered or corrupted database file,which any criminal mind can use to set up or trap someone else.The outcome of this research is a plugin for our digital forensics ready framework software which could be used by law enforcement and regulatory agencies to reconstruct the digital evidence available in the Instagram mobile application directories on both Android and IOS-based mobile phones.展开更多
文摘The smart home platform integrates with Internet of Things(IoT)devices,smartphones,and cloud servers,enabling seamless and convenient services.It gathers and manages extensive user data,including personal information,device operations,and patterns of user behavior.Such data plays an essential role in criminal inves-tigations,highlighting the growing importance of specialized smart home forensics.Given the rapid advancement in smart home software and hardware technologies,many companies are introducing new devices and services that expand the market.Consequently,scalable and platform-specific forensic research is necessary to support efficient digital investigations across diverse smart home ecosystems.This study thoroughly examines the core components and structures of smart homes,proposing a generalized architecture that represents various operational environments.A three-stage smart home forensics framework is introduced:(1)analyzing application functions to infer relevant data,(2)extracting and processing data from interconnected devices,and(3)identifying data valuable for investigative purposes.The framework’s applicability is validated using testbeds from Samsung SmartThings and Xiaomi Mi Home platforms,offering practical insights for real-world forensic applications.The results demonstrate that the proposed forensic framework effectively acquires and classifies relevant digital evidence in smart home platforms,confirming its practical applicability in smart home forensic investigations.
基金This research was supported by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology(KIAT)Grant Funded by the Korea Government(MOTIE)(P0012724,The Competency Development Program for Industry Specialist)and the Soonchunhyang University Research Fund.
文摘In this research,we developed a plugin for our automated digital forensics framework to extract and preserve the evidence from the Android and the IOS-based mobile phone application,Instagram.This plugin extracts personal details from Instagram users,e.g.,name,user name,mobile number,ID,direct text or audio,video,and picture messages exchanged between different Instagram users.While developing the plugin,we identified resources available in both Android and IOS-based devices holding key forensics artifacts.We highlighted the poor privacy scheme employed by Instagram.This work,has shown how the sensitive data posted in the Instagram mobile application can easily be reconstructed,and how the traces,as well as the URL links of visual messages,can be used to access the privacy of any Instagram user without any critical credential verification.We also employed the anti-forensics method on the Instagram Android’s application and were able to restore the application from the altered or corrupted database file,which any criminal mind can use to set up or trap someone else.The outcome of this research is a plugin for our digital forensics ready framework software which could be used by law enforcement and regulatory agencies to reconstruct the digital evidence available in the Instagram mobile application directories on both Android and IOS-based mobile phones.
