1st International ICST Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia

Research Article

Forensics for Korean Cell Phone

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/e-forensics.2008.2755,
        author={Keonwoo Kim and Dowon Hong and Kyoil Chung},
        title={Forensics for Korean Cell Phone},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={E-FORENSICS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Forensics logical method acquisition cell phone flash memory},
        doi={10.4108/e-forensics.2008.2755}
    }
    
  • Keonwoo Kim
    Dowon Hong
    Kyoil Chung
    Year: 2010
    Forensics for Korean Cell Phone
    E-FORENSICS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/e-forensics.2008.2755
Keonwoo Kim1,*, Dowon Hong2,*, Kyoil Chung3,*
  • 1: ETRI 161 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu Daejeon, 305-350, Korea +82-42-860-1521
  • 2: ETRI 161 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu Daejeon, 305-350, Korea +82-42-860-6147
  • 3: ETRI 161 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu Daejeon, 305-350, Korea +82-42-860-1920
*Contact email: wootopian@etri.re.kr, dwhong@etri.re.kr, kyoil@etri.re.kr

Abstract

Cell phone forensics to acquire and analyze data in the cellular phone is nowadays being used in a national investigation organization and a private company. In order to collect cellular phone flash memory data, we have two methods. First method is a logical approach which acquires files and directories from the file system of the cell phone flash memory. Secondly, we can get all data from bit-by-bit copy of entire physical memory using a low level access method. In this paper, we describe a forensic tool to acquire cell phone flash memory data using a logical level approach. By our tool, we can get EFS file system and peek memory data with an arbitrary region from some Korean CDMA cell phones.