Forensics analysis on mobile devices: a systematic mapping study

Abstract

Nowadays, mobile devices have evolved vertiginously due to their massive adoption by users, who have several devices with different purposes. These devices contain greater capacity/functionality to manage information, with the embedded characteristics they become an important digital evidence container. In recent years, considerable research has been conducted on various types of digital electronic evidence, acquisition schemes and methods of extracting evidence from mobile devices. In this paper, a systematic mapping of the Forensics Analysis on Mobile Device is presented; this research has been conducted following the guidelines of Kitchenham’s methodology. The aim of this study is to provide a background of relevant activities that are considered by investigators to handle with potentially useful digital evidence from mobile devices. A total of 36 primary studies were selected and categorized to extract information regarding the aforementioned classification. The results presented in this contribution provide a detailed study about current analysis in research forensics field by the use of mobile devices.