Research Article
Retracing the Flow of the Stream: Investigating Kodi Streaming Services
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-68734-2_13, author={Samuel Todd Bromley and John Sheppard and Mark Scanlon and Nhien-An Le-Khac}, title={Retracing the Flow of the Stream: Investigating Kodi Streaming Services}, proceedings={Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime. 11th EAI International Conference, ICDF2C 2020, Boston, MA, USA, October 15-16, 2020, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={ICDF2C}, year={2021}, month={2}, keywords={Kodi Video streaming Log file analysis Forensics}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-68734-2_13} }- Samuel Todd Bromley
John Sheppard
Mark Scanlon
Nhien-An Le-Khac
Year: 2021
Retracing the Flow of the Stream: Investigating Kodi Streaming Services
ICDF2C
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68734-2_13
Abstract
Kodi is of one of the world’s largest open-source streaming platforms for viewing video content. Easily installed Kodi add-ons facilitate access to online pirated videos and streaming content by facilitating the user to search and view copyrighted videos with a basic level of technical knowledge. In some countries, there have been paid child sexual abuse organizations publishing/streaming child abuse material to an international paying clientele. Open source software used for viewing videos from the Internet, such as Kodi, is being exploited by criminals to conduct their activities. In this paper, we describe a new method to quickly locate Kodi artifacts and gather information for a successful prosecution. We also evaluate our approach on different platforms; Windows, Android and Linux. Our experiments show the file location, artifacts and a history of viewed content including their locations from the Internet. Our approach will serve as a resource to forensic investigators to examine Kodi or similar streaming platforms.
