Mozilla Firefox Browsing Artifacts in 3 Different Anti-forensics Modes

Deepak Gupta; Babu Mehtre

Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime. Fifth International Conference, ICDF2C 2013, Moscow, Russia, September 26-27, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

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Mozilla Firefox Browsing Artifacts in 3 Different Anti-forensics Modes

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-14289-0_17,
    author={Deepak Gupta and Babu Mehtre},
    title={Mozilla Firefox Browsing Artifacts in 3 Different Anti-forensics Modes},
    proceedings={Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime. Fifth International Conference, ICDF2C 2013, Moscow, Russia, September 26-27, 2013, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={ICDF2C},
    year={2015},
    month={2},
    keywords={Forensics investigation Digital evidences Artifacts Anti-forensics techniques Portable environment Virtual box Sandboxie},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-319-14289-0_17}
}

Deepak Gupta
Babu Mehtre
Year: 2015
Mozilla Firefox Browsing Artifacts in 3 Different Anti-forensics Modes
ICDF2C
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14289-0_17

Deepak Gupta¹^,*, Babu Mehtre²^,*

1: University of Hyderabad
2: Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (Established by Reserve Bank of India)

*Contact email: Deepkgupta1989@gmail.com, BMMehtre@idrbt.ac.in

Abstract

There are several techniques which can assist a user to avoid leaving traces (Digital Evidence) of Internet activity so that one can frustrate forensic investigation. In this paper we examined three different usage scenarios of Internet browsing using Mozilla Firefox. These different usage scenarios were a sandbox environment, browsing with portable tools, and browsing with virtual box. We tried to find the artifacts created and left by web browsing activities in each of these usage scenarios. In our experiments, we performed identical web browsing activity for each of the three scenarios and investigated whether the traces were left behind.

Keywords: Forensics investigation Digital evidences Artifacts Anti-forensics techniques Portable environment Virtual box Sandboxie

Published: 2015-02-06
Appears in: SpringerLink

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14289-0_17