A Comparative Evaluation of Open Source and Commercial Tools for Digital Forensics

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วันทนีย์ ตุลยเสวี
วรธัช วิชชุวาณิชย์

Abstract

              Techniques used in the examination of digital evidence vary greatly, depending on the purpose of certain cases that may require a specific tool or a forensic software. Whether it is an open source or a commercial one, the techniques must emphasize on the infallibility and reliability. In this research, a comparison of an open source tool (Autopsy version 4.10) and commercial tools (EnCase version 8.08 and AXIOM version 3.0) was conducted to evaluate the capability of forensic tools. Features were set, including image acquisition, hash value calculation (MD5, SHA-1), the identification of the deleted files, the recovery of the delete files, report making, The three program tools were used in analyzing and creating data for the analysis of Solid State Drive (SSD) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD). The comparative analysis concluded that commercial tools could analyze more features than those of the open source tools. In addition, the recovery of the data from SSD was failed due to the TRIM command whereas the deleted data from HDD were successfully recovered.

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ตุลยเสวี ว., & วิชชุวาณิชย์ ว. (2019). A Comparative Evaluation of Open Source and Commercial Tools for Digital Forensics. Journal of Criminology and Forensic Science, 5(2), 42–57. retrieved from https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/forensic/article/view/198180
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