Advances of Mobile Forensic Procedures in Firefox OS

Yusoff, Mohd Najwadi

doi:10.17781/p001338

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“…Understandably, there is a risk to this type of research focused specifically on unpopular mobile operating systems. They may be discontinued, such as in the case of Firefox OS, which has had previous research published [19]. However, despite Firefox OS being discontinued, the research conducted is still important.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Forensics Analysis of Ubuntu Touch on PinePhone

2021

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New smartphones made by small companies enter the technology market everyday. These new devices introduce new challenges for mobile forensic investigators as these devices end up becoming pertinent evidence during an investigation. One such device is the PinePhone from Pine Microsystems (Pine64). These new devices are sometimes also shipped with OSes that are developed by open source communities and are otherwise never seen by investigators. Ubuntu Touch is one of these OSes and is currently being developed for deployment on the PinePhone. There is little research behind both the device and OS on what methodology an investigator should follow to reliably and accurately extract data. This results in potentially flawed methodologies being used before any testing can occur and contributes to the backlog of devices that need to be processed. Therefore, in this paper, the first forensic analysis of the PinePhone device with Ubuntu Touch OS is performed using Autopsy, an open source tool, to establish a framework that can be used to examine and analyze devices running the Ubuntu Touch OS. The findings include analysis of artifacts that could impact user privacy and data security, organization structure of file storage, app storage, OS, etc. Moreover, locations within the device that stores call logs, SMS messages, images, and videos are reported. Interesting findings include forensic artifacts, which could be useful to investigators in understanding user activity and attribution. This research will provide a roadmap to the digital forensic investigators to efficiently and effectively conduct their investigations where they have Ubuntu Touch OS and/or PinePhone as the evidence source.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Forensics Analysis of Ubuntu Touch on PinePhone

2021

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“…The UML usecase diagram was utilized for demonstrating the proposed model efficiency. In another research [13] focused on Firefox OS, a methodology of mobile forensic procedures was proposed for forensic investigations. It was composed of three processes of preparing, preserving, and acquiring.…”

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A Review of Mobile Forensic Investigation Process Models

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Mobile Forensics (MF) field uses prescribed scientific approaches with a focus on recovering Potential Digital Evidence (PDE) from mobile devices leveraging forensic techniques. Consequently, increased proliferation, mobile-based services, and the need for new requirements have led to the development of the MF field, which has in the recent past become an area of importance. In this article, the authors take a step to conduct a review on Mobile Forensics Investigation Process Models (MFIPMs) as a step towards uncovering the MF transitions as well as identifying open and future challenges. Based on the study conducted in this article, a review of the literature revealed that there are a few MFIPMs that are designed for solving certain mobile scenarios, with a variety of concepts, investigation processes, activities, and tasks. A total of 100 MFIPMs were reviewed, to present an inclusive and up-to-date background of MFIPMs. Also, this study proposes a Harmonized Mobile Forensic Investigation Process Model (HMFIPM) for the MF field to unify and structure whole redundant investigation processes of the MF field. The paper also goes the extra mile to discuss the state of the art of mobile forensic tools, open and future challenges from a generic standpoint. The results of this study find direct relevance to forensic practitioners and researchers who could leverage the comprehensiveness of the developed processes for investigation.INDEX TERMS Mobile forensics, investigation process model, digital forensics.

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“…Depending on the IM app in use, the end user device is often a potential source for the recovery of IM artefacts (Carvey, 2004;Dickson 2006aDickson , 2006bDickson , 2006cDickson , 2007Reust, 2006;Van Dongen, 2007a, 2007bParvez et al, 2011;Mohtasebi et al, 2011a;Ibrahim et al, 2012;Yusoff et al, 2014aYusoff et al, , 2014bNorouzi, 2015;Azfar et al, 2015b;Do et al, 2015;Immanuel, 2015;Leom, 2015;Damshenas et al, 2015;Talebi et al, 2015). Such terrestrial artefacts can be useful in establishing whether a suspect has a direct connection to a crime (Mohtasebi and Dehghantanha, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%