• Refine Query
  • Source
  • Publication year
  • to
  • Language
  • 1
  • Tagged with
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
1

Automated Differentiation of Chat Application Versions and Categorisation of Changes Based on Forensic Relevance / Automatiserad Differentiering av Chattapplikationsversioner och Kategorisering av ÄndringarBaserade på Forensisk Relevans

Ljungsten, Ted, Makowski, Adam January 2024 (has links)
This thesis investigates the automation of forensic analysis in identifying and categorising forensically interestingchanges across different versions of chat applications on Android platforms. The focus is primarily on thedifferentiation of Android Package Kit (APK) using reverse-engineering techniques to reconstruct the originalsource code and comparing the source code from two different versions of the APK. Given the rapid evolutionof chat applications and their frequent updates, it is crucial for forensic investigators to understand thesechanges to maintain the integrity of legal investigations.The research introduces a comprehensive framework leveraging the open-source tools, Ghidra and BinDiff, toautomate the decompilation and differential analysis of APK files. This approach not only makes forensicanalysis less complicated but also ensures that investigators can keep pace with the continuous updates in chatapplications.Tests on the system are conducted on various versions of the Signal chat application. These tests aim todemonstrate the proposed tool in capturing significant changes between APK versions, such as alterations inlogging mechanisms, database interactions, and the use of encryption and cypher libraries.The results confirm that the integration of Ghidra and BinDiff provides a solution for automated forensicanalysis, facilitating the identification of changes and categorisation of methods based on their forensicrelevance. The study shows that the tool can pinpoint modifications and structural changes, which are essentialfor forensic investigations.

Page generated in 0.1438 seconds