DIGITAL FORENSIC APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING USER ACTIVITIES AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120150915A1
• Filed: 12/13/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea University Research and Business Foundation
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea University Research and Business Foundation
• Inventors: Choi, Woo Yong, Un, Sung Kyong, Hong, Do Won, Lee, Sang Jin, Son, Nam Heun, Bang, Je Wan, Park, Jung Heum
• Application Number:
  US13/324,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150915A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A digital forensic apparatus for analyzing user activities includes: a collection unit for collecting analysis information related to user activities from a device as an investigation target for analyzing the user activities; and an analysis unit for analyzing the analysis information collected by the collection unit to determine activity information of a user from each type of the analysis information, and for causing the activity information to be arranged and displayed in temporal order.

Claims

1. A digital forensic apparatus for analyzing user activities, comprising:

a collection unit for collecting analysis information related to user activities from a device as an investigation target for analyzing the user activities; and

an analysis unit for analyzing the analysis information collected by the collection unit to determine activity information of a user from each type of the analysis information, and for causing the activity information to be arranged and displayed in temporal order.

2. The digital forensic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the collection unit receives one or more analysis items selected by an investigator, and collects the analysis information of the received items from the device.

3. The digital forensic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the analysis unit makes a format of the activity information uniform, and enters the activity information in a uniform format into a database table.

4. The digital forensic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the analysis information includes at least one of registry information, specific folder information, prefetch information, event log information, web history information and file system information.

5. The digital forensic apparatus of claim 4, wherein the analysis unit, when receiving the registry information among the analysis information, determines the activity information such as attachment of a universal serial bus (USB) drive or an installation of an application program by analyzing the registry information.

6. The digital forensic apparatus of claim 5, wherein the analysis unit obtains information about recently used documents on the device by using a most recently used key value of the registry information, thereby determining the activity information of the user.

7. The digital forensic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the activity information includes at least one of information about installation of application programs, attachment of USB storage devices, utilization of documents, execution of programs, visits to and searches of websites and modification and creation of files at specific times.

8. A digital forensic method for analyzing user activities, comprising:

collecting analysis information related to user activities from a device as an investigation target for analyzing the user activities;

analyzing the collected analysis information to determine activity information of a user from each type of the analysis information; and

causing the activity information to be arranged and displayed in temporal order.

9. The digital forensic method of claim 8, wherein said collecting the analysis information includes:

receiving one or more analysis items selected by an investigator with respect to the device as the investigation target; and

collecting the analysis information of the received items from the device.

10. The digital forensic method of claim 8, wherein a format of the activity information is made uniform, and the activity information in a uniform format is entered into a database table.

11. The digital forensic method of claim 8, wherein the analysis information includes at least one of registry information, specific folder information, prefetch information, event log information, web history information and file system information.

12. The digital forensic method of claim 8, wherein the activity information includes at least one of information about installation of application programs, attachment of USB storage devices, utilization of documents, execution of programs, visits to and searches of websites and modification and creation of files at specific times.

13. The digital forensic method of claim 11, wherein when the registry information is received, the activity information such as attachment of a universal serial bus (USB) drive or an installation of an application program is determined by analyzing the registry information.

14. The digital forensic method of claim 13, wherein information about recently used documents on the device is obtained by using a most recently used key value of the registry information to thereby determine the activity information of the user.