Live Forensics on GPS inactive Smartphone
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https://doi.org/10.12928/mf.v3i1.3847Keywords:
Live Forensic, Location History, Activity Google, Mobile Forensic, SmartphoneAbstract
Google is known to still track the user's location despite the GPS settings and location history in smartphone settings has been turned off by the user. This requires special handling to prove the location on smartphones with inactive GPS and view its Location History previously used by user. The research investigates if Google is still recording its user data location. Live Forensic requires data from the running system or volatile data which is usually found in Random Access Memory (RAM) or transit on the network. Investigations are carried out using a Google account with a method used by live forensics to obtain results from the location history. Smartphones have been checked manually through data backup through custom recovery that has been installed. When checking the backup filesystem, turned out that no location data is stored. Therefore, researchers conducted an analysis on the Google Account which was analyzed using a forensic tool to analyze cloud services to obtain location data results. The results of the analysis carried out obtained a similarity in location from 8-days investigations. Google can still find the location of smartphones with GPS disabled, but the location results are not accurate. Google can store user location data via cellular networks, Wi-Fi, and sensors to help estimate the user's location. The process of extracting the results from the google maps log using a Google account will be analyzed using the Elcomsoft Cloud eXplorer and Oxygen Forensic Cloud Extractor so that the log location results are still available by Google.
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