FACEBOOK MESSENGER APPLICATION FORENSICS ANALYSIS (ANDROID)
Keywords:
Facebook Messenger; Magnet Axiom; MOBILedit; Rooted Device; Non-Rooted Device; Account Information; Conversation Details; Deleted Media.Abstract
Today in the world of technology Facebook is leading the market with a maximum number of user on its Messenger, Whatsapp, and Instagram. According to
the latest studies, the monthly active user of Facebook Messenger is about 1300 Million as of October 2020. With this leading number of users, cybercrimes are also increasing, people use social media platforms to communicate and carry out criminal activities like planning for some illegal activity, abusive content sharing, etc. In this research, we try to find out the data present on a criminal phone after the arrest of the criminal. Many of them delete their data from the phone and it is hard to extract that kind of data, but we try to recover as much data that we extract from the suspect device and present it in the court of law using two forensics tools. After inspecting tests show that we cannot extract Facebook Messenger data with logical acquisition from the device. Physical acquisition is used for Facebook Messenger data extraction. The results are discussed below.
