Design and implementation of cloud based mobile forensic tool

Abstract

In order to solve the problem of actively adapt to the desktop application of the mobile forensic tool, a cloud based mobile forensic tool is proposed in this paper. Cloud based mobile forensic tool can largely advantageous from cloud based models in terms of the low cost utilization and better resource management. The purpose of the system design is accounting to retrieve smartphone contents in forensically sound ways by using cloud service models in order to reduce the cost of mobile forensic tool. The data stored on the smartphone could be extremely useful for analysis through the course of an investigation. Indeed, mobile devices are already showing themselves to have a larger volume of probative information that is linked to an individual with just basic call history, contacts and text message data; smartphone contains even mobile useful information such as email, browser history and chat logs. Mobile devices probably have more probative information that can be linked to an individual per byte examined than most computers and this data is harder to acquire in a forensically proper fashion in cloud computing. By comparing this scheme with conventional design schema this system can easy and ubiquitous access to a mobile forensic tool in the cloud, and allow to utilize the services of forensic examiners who may be in geographically remote areas. Therefore, developing a cloud based mobile forensic tool system plays an important role.