| Title | A Forensic Methodology for the Analysis of Cloud-Based Android Apps |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Priyanka, V S, Satheesh Kumar, S, Jinu Kumar, S V |
| Conference Name | 2021 International Conference on Forensics, Analytics, Big Data, Security (FABS) |
| Date Published | dec |
| Keywords | Android devices, authentication, Big Data, big data security in the cloud, cloud data, data acquisition, Forensics, Internet, Metrics, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, security, Servers, tokens |
| Abstract | The widespread use of smartphones has made the gadget a prime source of evidence for crime investigators. The cloud-based applications on mobile devices store a rich set of evidence in the cloud servers. The physical acquisition of Android devices reveals only minimal data of cloud-based apps. However, the artifacts collected from mobile devices can be used for data acquisition from cloud servers. This paper focuses on the forensic acquisition and analysis of cloud data of Google apps on Android devices. The proposed methodology uses the tokens extracted from the Android devices to get authenticated to the Google server bypassing the two-factor authentication scheme and access the cloud data for further analysis. Based on the investigation, we have also developed a tool to acquire, preserve and analyze cloud data in a forensically sound manner. |
| DOI | 10.1109/FABS52071.2021.9702691 |
| Citation Key | priyanka_forensic_2021 |
A Forensic Methodology for the Analysis of Cloud-Based Android Apps