Data acquisition from mobile phone using mobiledit

Abstract

Mobile forensic is a subsidiary of digital forensic that is flourishing constantly. As per current scenario, mobile phones not only mean traditional mobile phones that were developed and used in late 1990s but also include smart phones that offer an array of functionality. Mobile phones developed in 1990s also known as feature phones provided limited functionality such as calling and messaging as they were subjected to provide communication facility. But at present, mobile phones are used not only for communication but also for executing face to face interactions, shopping using various applications, trading and internet surfing, etc thus making mobile more feature-variant and making them smart. Since, mobile phone market is constantly rising because of increased and improved features; usage of mobile phones in criminal activities or illegal activities has also increased. The crime scene can be re-created by identifying the series of actions that has taken place when crime was committed by using compatible mobile forensic tools. Current attack could not be prevented, but the investigator can attain all crucial evidences present on the crime scene in order to reduce similar kind of attacks in future. The capturing and recording of crime scene, collecting and analyzing the evidence and finding the culprit and reason of committing crime is the art of mobile forensics. In this paper, we are going to discuss the implementation of proposed framework by using tool MOBILedit.