Premium
BrowStExPlus: A Tool to Aggregate Indexed DB Artifacts for Forensic Analysis
Author(s) -
Paligu Furkan,
Kumar Avinash,
Cho Hyuk,
Varol Cihan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of forensic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1556-4029
pISSN - 0022-1198
DOI - 10.1111/1556-4029.14043
Subject(s) - suspect , computer science , world wide web , digital forensics , the internet , web browser , aggregate (composite) , data science , computer security , political science , law , materials science , composite material
As the Internet and World Wide Web have rapidly evolved and revolutionized the applications in everyday life, it is a demanding challenge for investigators to keep up with the emerging technologies for forensic analyses. Investigating web browser usages for criminal activities, also known as web browser forensics, is a significant part of digital forensics as crucial browsing information of the suspect can be discovered. Particularly, in this study, an emerging web storage technology, called Indexed DB , is examined. Characteristics of Indexed DB technology in five major web browsers under three major operating systems are scrutinized. Also, top 15 US websites ranked by Alexa are investigated for their data storage in Indexed DB . User screen names, ids, and records of conversations, permissions, and image locations are some of the data found in Indexed DB . Furthermore, BrowStEx, a proof‐of‐concept tool previously developed, is extended and cultivated into BrowStExPlus, with which aggregating Indexed DB artifacts is demonstrated.