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Survey of Forensic and Analysis Tools based on Grouping of Digital Evidence using Metadata Functionality

by Anubhav Kumar Vaid, Yogendra P.S. Maravi, Jitendra Singh Verma
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 142 - Number 3
Year of Publication: 2016
Authors: Anubhav Kumar Vaid, Yogendra P.S. Maravi, Jitendra Singh Verma
10.5120/ijca2016909718

Anubhav Kumar Vaid, Yogendra P.S. Maravi, Jitendra Singh Verma . Survey of Forensic and Analysis Tools based on Grouping of Digital Evidence using Metadata Functionality. International Journal of Computer Applications. 142, 3 ( May 2016), 28-34. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016909718

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author = { Anubhav Kumar Vaid, Yogendra P.S. Maravi, Jitendra Singh Verma },
title = { Survey of Forensic and Analysis Tools based on Grouping of Digital Evidence using Metadata Functionality },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { May 2016 },
volume = { 142 },
number = { 3 },
month = { May },
year = { 2016 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 28-34 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume142/number3/24878-2016909718/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2016909718 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%P 28-34
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Computer forensics can be defined as obtaining computer storage media so that data can be used as evidence in court. Traditionally the analysis of sources of digital evidences is done by examining the artefacts and metadata of artefacts for authenticating the gathered information and sequencing them in the manner they occurred. Analyzing the information acquired by forensic investigator in traditional way is a cumbersome task but it can be overcome if all the related artefacts are grouped together on the basis of metadata information they prevails. This paper is mainly focused on metadata based association of digital evidences which can simplify the task of forensic investigator and can also help in reducing human intervention making the process automatic. The main objective of this paper is to study working principal and compare different existing forensic tools on the basis of various parameters such as capability for accessing digital evidence, sources they can examine, metadata parsing capability, and analyzing them that whether they can provide grouping of different artefacts present in same or different investigating sources on the basis of metadata they contain. General Terms Survey of Forensic tools on the basis of metadata extraction property.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Digital evidence Binary abstraction File system and schema support Metadata Evidence composition

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