• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.95-110
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• 2018

With the widespread use of smartphones, various personal information of users is being recorded on a smartphone in real time. For the purpose of preventing the loss of important personal information of users, manufacturer provides a smartphone backup applications. Recently, not only backup programs for PC but also backup mobile apps for smart phones have been provided. From the point of view acquiring forensic data, it is important not to compromise the acquisition possibilities and the integrity of the original data. Especially, in the case of Android smartphones, various studies are being carried out to acquire the data without damaging the integrity of the original data. However, there are limitations to apply the existing research methods. In this paper, we describe the process of acquiring data using the backup mobile app provided by the manufacturer without compromising the integrity of the latest smartphone.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.827-839
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• 2012

A cell phone is very close to the user and therefore should be considered in digital forensic investigation. Recently, the proportion of smartphone owners is increasing dramatically. Unlike the feature phone, users can utilize various mobile application in smartphone because it has high-performance operating system (e.g., Android, iOS). As acquisition and analysis of user data in smartphone are more important in digital forensic purposes, smartphone forensics has been studied actively. There are two way to do smartphone forensics. The first way is to extract user's data using the backup and debugging function of smartphones. The second way is to get root permission, and acquire the image of flash memory. And then, it is possible to reconstruct the filesystem, such as YAFFS, EXT, RFS, HFS+ and analyze it. However, this methods are not suitable to recovery and analyze deleted data from smartphones. This paper introduces analysis techniques for fragmented flash memory pages in smartphones. Especially, this paper demonstrates analysis techniques on the image that reconstruction of filesystem is impossible because the spare area of flash memory pages does not exist and the pages in unallocated area of filesystem.