TITLE:
Smartphone Forensic Analysis: A Case Study for Obtaining Root Access of an Android Samsung S3 Device and Analyse the Image without an Expensive Commercial Tool
AUTHORS:
Muhammad Faheem, N.-A. Le-Khac, Tahar Kechadi
KEYWORDS:
Viber, Root, Android Forensic
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Information Security,
Vol.5 No.3,
July
3,
2014
ABSTRACT: Smartphone is a very
useful and compact device that fits in person’s pocket, but at the same time it
can be used as a tool for criminal activities. In this day and age, people
increasingly rely on smart phones rather than desktop computers or laptops to
exchange messages, share videos and audio messages. A smartphone is almost
equivalent in its application to a PC, hence there are security risks
associated with its use such as carrying out a digital crime or becoming a
victim of one. Criminals can use smartphones for a number of activities.
Namely, committing a fraud over e-mail, harassment via text messages, drug
trafficking, child pornography, communications related to narcotics, etc. It is
a great challenge for forensic experts to extract data from a smartphone for
forensic purposes that can be used as evidence in the court of law. In this
case study, I show how to obtain the root access of Samsung S3 phone, how to
create DD image and then how to examine DD image via commercial tool like UFED
physical analyzer trial version which
doesn’t support Android devices? I will extract the messages for Viber on trial version of UFED
Physical analyzer.