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Forensic analysis of Twitch video streaming activities on Android
Author(s) -
AlZahrani Ali,
Wani Mohamad Ahtisham,
Bhat Wasim Ahmad
Publication year - 2021
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 - 10.1111/1556-4029.14750
Subject(s) - android (operating system) , computer science , forensic science , computer security , multimedia , internet privacy , operating system , medicine , veterinary medicine
Abstract Video streaming abuses range from copyright infringement and piracy to child sexual abuse and murder. This paper performs proactive forensics of Twitch video streaming activities on Android devices. We designed our experiments using a methodology based on black‐box testing principles and conducted them on Android devices using a forensic framework. The results of our experiments suggest that forensic investigators can extract evidences of streams broadcast, shared, and watched by the user, and associate them with the Twitch account of the user. We detail all the recoverable artifacts of forensic significance, provide mechanisms to extract them based on the identified anchors, and interpret their significance in forensic investigations.