Title: Forensic Investigation Technique on Android’s Blackberry Messenger using NIST Framework

Issue Number: Vol. 6, No. 4
Year of Publication: Nov - 2017
Page Numbers: 198-205
Authors: Imam Riadi, Sunardi, Arizona Firdonsyah
Journal Name: International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF)
- Hong Kong
DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.17781/P002306

Abstract:


In the past few years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of smartphone users. this can be seen with various brands and platforms of smartphones that sold almost every week. One of smartphone platform with a huge amount of users is Android. The rapid development of Android smartphone technology has an impact on the growing number of applications developed for Android platform, including instant messaging applications. Blackberry Messenger (BBM) is one of the multi-platform instant messaging applications with the amount of users that increase significantly each year, causing the possibility of digital crimes that occured by digital crime perpetrator is also significantly increased. In the process of investigating digital crime cases, digital evidences are required to solve these cases. To obtain digital evidences, a technique of forensic investigation on physical evidence has been conducted. This paper studies three widely used mobile forensics tools namely, Oxygen Forensic Suite, Andriller, and Belkasoft Evidence Center in extracting data from BBM application that installed on an Android based smartphone using a framework developed by NIST. The results of this research were presented in the form of recorded conversations, BBM Personal Identification Number (BBM PIN), pictures, and conversation timestamp.