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Large Scale Cross Drive Correlation Of Digital Media

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العنوان: Large Scale Cross Drive Correlation Of Digital Media
المؤلفون: Bruaene,Joseph V
المساهمون: Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC Technical Reports database
مصطلحات موضوعية: high performance computing, internet, computational forensics, computer programming, information systems, digital media, operating systems, Digital Forensics, Similarity Detection, Automated Correlation, Digital Fingerprinting, Approximate Matching, Bulk Analysis
الوصف: Traditional digital forensic practices have focused on individual hard disk analysis. As the digital universe continues to grow, and cybercrimes become more prevalent, the ability to make large scale cross-drive correlations among a large corpus of digital media becomes increasingly important. We propose a methodology that builds on bulk-analysis techniques to avoid operating system- and file-system specific parsing. In addition, we apply document similarity methods to forensic artifact correlation. By representing each disk image as a set of hash values corresponding to the 512-byte sectors on the disk, and calculating pair-wise similarity scores between hard disk images, we analyze a collection of disk images taken from various storage devices purchased from the secondary market. We conclude sector-based matching is sufficient to identify images in our dataset that share common DLLs, indicating similarity in their operating systems. We present a visualization of our results as an undirected graph with similarity scores represented as edge weights, and observe that disk images with common operating systems tend to align with graph clusters. Though no common set of sectors is present on all driveseven among the large fully-connected component in our graphwe find that grouping our dataset into subsets with the same operating system version does reveal sizable collections of common sectors, and achieved the best correlation between sector matches and high-level similarities in our dataset. Extending this technique to a larger dataset and continuing our investigation of the cause of sector-level matches could yield an automated method of profiling new disk images during the triage process. Moreover, this technique could be used to corroborate deductions regarding characteristics of information systems associated with target media
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Relation: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1027672
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Rights: Approved For Public Release
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.461083F8
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