For my research, I chose to analyze a popular Android application for malwares. But why select a Russian version? Well, it made a compelling case study from analysis perspective that I later found out during my research. The application I selected was popular game called FruitNinja downloaded from Russian Fake Android Store (Figure 1). Figure 1 : Russian Fake Android App Store Steps for Analysis: Application PacKage (APK) is the file format used to distribute Read More…
In this article we will learn on how to do the forensic of USB devices, how to correlate the USB device with the drive letter and how to see at what time the USB device was plugged in and plugged out. This article may be very useful for the military forces as they can easily note the time when the particular USB device was plugged in. Whenever a forensic investigator does the forensic of a Read More…
by Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting Mrs Carol L. Stimmel has taken upon her to start a Computer Forensic Volunteer Project to provide low-cost services to those who cannot assert advantage from our skills. Here is a bit taken from the press release:- “As expert members of the international computer forensics community which provides unique and highly desirable services to the legal system, we assume a responsibility to provide services to those in need yet unable Read More…
by Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting The index.dat is a file which contains the list of the websites that one has visited. It comes from “indexing” which is used to speed up query responses. The autocomplete feature in Internet Explorer compares the addresses to the index.dat to find an appropriate match. The size and life of the index.dat depends on the user and the options under: – Internet Explorer: Tools> Internet Options (Days to keep pages Read More…