WEB BROWSER FORENSICS: GOOGLE CHROME

Abstract

Internet users use the web browser to perform various activities on the internet such as browsing internet, email, internet banking, social media applications, download files- videos etc. As web browser is the only way to access the internet and cybercrime criminal uses or target the web browser to commit the crime related to internet. It is very important for the digital forensic examiner to collect and analysis artifacts related to web browser usage of the suspect. There are various browsers available in the market such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox Mozilla, Safari and Opera etc, among which Google Chrome is very popular among the internet user community. Our literature survey shows that most of the researches used prefetch file and live memory analysis as source of information to extract artifacts. In this research paper, we analyzed default artifacts location, history, cookies, login data, topsides, shortcuts, user profile, prefetch file and RAM dump to collect artifacts related to internet activities on windows installed Google Chrome. The outcome of this research will serve to be a significant resource for law enforcement, computer forensic investigators, and the digital forensics research community.