Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2017
Abstract
Examiners in the field of digital forensics regularly encounter enormous amounts of data and must identify the few artifacts of evidentiary value. One challenge these examiners face is manual reconstruction of complex datasets with both hierarchical and associative relationships. The complexity of this data requires significant knowledge, training, and experience to correctly and efficiently examine. Current methods provide text-based representations or low-level visualizations, but levee the task of maintaining global context of system state on the examiner. This research presents a visualization tool that improves analysis methods through simultaneous representation of the hierarchical and associative relationships and local detailed data within a single page application. A novel whitelisting feature further improves analysis by eliminating items of less interest from view. Results from a pilot study demonstrate that the visualization tool can assist examiners to more accurately and quickly identify artifacts of interest.
Source Publication
Digital Investigation
Recommended Citation
Lapso, J. A., Peterson, G. L., & Okolica, J. S. (2017). Whitelisting system state in windows forensic memory visualizations. Digital Investigation, 20(March), 2–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2016.12.002
Comments
AFIT Scholar furnishes the draft version of this article. The published version of record appears in Digital Investigation and is available by subscription through the DOI link in the citation below.
Volume 20 of Digital Investigation is subtitled: "Special Issue on Volatile Memory Analysis"