Examining Digital Forensic Evidence for Android Applications
Mohammad Rasmi Al-Mousa, Qutaiba Al-Zaqebah, Ala'a Saeb Al-Sherideh, Mohammed Alghanim, Ghassan Samara, Sattam Almatarneh, Mahmoud Asassfeh
Abstract
The examination of digital forensic evidence is a science highlighting the main areas of progress in forensic science. Various social media sites (SNS) providing e-mail services, messages, pictures, and videos have brought about a huge explosion in development. In recent times, Digital Forensics has expanded to be used in all institutions and companies, especially financial companies, pharmaceutical companies, and investment companies. With this electronic development, criminal activities have dramatically increased to obtain and steal data for personal or international interests or the so-called data theft. Therefore, the biggest challenge lies in protecting this information from theft and searching for digital forensic evidence so that the digital evidence is correct and sound from a forensic point of view. Against this, this paper provides a detailed review of the most important Android applications in digital forensics to attain, retrieve, and compare information altogether.