Forensic analysis of secure ephemeral messaging applications on Android platforms

Hannan Azhar; T. Barton

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51064-4_3

Forensic analysis of secure ephemeral messaging applications on Android platforms

Hannan Azhar
, T. Barton

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Abstract

Secure messaging applications have been used for the purposes of major crime, creating the need for forensic research into the area. This paper forensically analyses two secure messaging applications, Wickr and Telegram, to recover artefacts from and then to compare them to reveal the differences between the applications. The artefacts were created on Android platforms by
using the secure features of the applications, such as ephemeral messaging, the channel function and encrypted conversations. The results of the experiments documented in this paper give insight into the organisation of the data structures by both Wickr and Telegram, as well as the exploration of mobile digital forensics techniques to recover artefacts removed by the ephemeral functions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Global Security, Safety and Sustainability - The Security Challenges of the Connected World: 11th International Conference, ICGS3 2017, London, UK, January 18-20, 2017, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ISBN (Print)	9783319510637
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51064-4_3
Publication status	Published - 18 Jan 2017

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Azhar, H., & Barton, T. (2017). Forensic analysis of secure ephemeral messaging applications on Android platforms. In Global Security, Safety and Sustainability - The Security Challenges of the Connected World: 11th International Conference, ICGS3 2017, London, UK, January 18-20, 2017, Proceedings Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51064-4_3

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Azhar, H & Barton, T 2017, Forensic analysis of secure ephemeral messaging applications on Android platforms. in Global Security, Safety and Sustainability - The Security Challenges of the Connected World: 11th International Conference, ICGS3 2017, London, UK, January 18-20, 2017, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51064-4_3

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Global Security, Safety and Sustainability - The Security Challenges of the Connected World: 11th International Conference, ICGS3 2017, London, UK, January 18-20, 2017, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2017.

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Azhar H, Barton T. Forensic analysis of secure ephemeral messaging applications on Android platforms. In Global Security, Safety and Sustainability - The Security Challenges of the Connected World: 11th International Conference, ICGS3 2017, London, UK, January 18-20, 2017, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2017 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51064-4_3

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