Incorporating Mobile Forensic Analysis And Reporting Into Nugget

Abstract

The application of digital mobile forensic investigation has become an integral process both in private and public institutions (Sarwar Mir, Shoaib and Shahzad Sarfraz, 2016). This has led to the development of various forensic tools in order to bridge the gap in the business processes. The development however has come at a cost; most of these tools are heterogenous and hence pose the challenge of interoperability. (Stelly and Roussev) (2018) developed Nugget to address this in the spectrum of digital forensic. The development was limited to memory and network analysis. The exception of mobile forensic introduced a new area of research, which (Chomba and Abade 2018) explored in their research titled Incorporating mobile forensic into Nugget. The research however introduced another gap, the application of mobile forensic into Nugget did not cover the last two phases of mobile forensics which are analysis and reporting. To address this, we incorporated mobile forensic analysis and reporting into Nugget. The output of this research was a software tool that can be used by forensic investigators when performing mobile forensics. Keywords: Mobile forensics, Nugget