Month: September 2012
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Automata Intersection to Test Possibility of Statements in Investigations
When conducting an investigation, many statements are given by witnesses and suspects. A “witness” could be considered as anything that provides information about the occurrence of an event. While a witness may traditionally be a human, a digital device – such as a computer or cell phone – could also help to provide information about…
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Limitations of Malware Sandbox Usage in Digital Forensic Investigation
When digital investigators are confronted with suspicious executable during investigation, a standard, well-known incidents response process is applied. This process encompasses, hashing the suspect executable and look-up with the hash value in an online malware analysis and scanning service such as VirusTotal [1] to verify if suspect executable belongs to a known malware family. If…