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Appendix B Bayesian probability tables B.1 SR Position either 0xFFFFFFFF or 0x00000000 Probability True 0.014847 False 0.985153 B.2 Valid Thumbnail Cache ID (TCID) values Probability True 0.0002 False 0.9998 B.3 Fragment contains CMMM Probability True 0.00101 False 0.99899 <strong>Cranfield</strong> <strong>University</strong> | 315
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CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY SARAH LOUISE A
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ABSTRACT This thesis establishes th
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS “And above all,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ........
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6 The structure and behaviour of th
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8.6.1 Stage 1: Preliminary Checks .
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LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1-1:A breakd
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LIST OF TABLES Table 5-1: A summary
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1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction In
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potential difficulty is the identif
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This is followed by a structural an
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Chapter 6 describes the structure a
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Chapter 11 evaluates the methodolog
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2 Related Research 2.1 Introduction
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Generally individuals, including so
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thought to be a disciplinary offenc
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2.2.2 Tools used in Forensic Comput
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structure and behaviour. Winhex pro
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with it are important aspects of an
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An important question for each arte
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For this research it is necessary t
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2007], which assist in building eve
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and therefore he did not have priva
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data may be affected by the behavio
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thumbnail cache is implemented in f
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available for office documents; the
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future. It is possible to establish
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structure and syntax the user and s
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Identify existing file carving tech
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throughout this research. Within th
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corroborate the results. Time const
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4.2.1 Legal Constraints The law can
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to the evidence and to ensure any a
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To ensure the evidence is accurate
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evidence being extracted is crucial
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analyse human behaviour, it can sti
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4.3 Criteria for evaluating the evi
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In order to determine an artefact w
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5 The Structure and Behaviour of th
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the way data changes. The experimen
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5.4 Default Installations This sect
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Figure 5-3: The structure of thumbn
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these can be identified by the addi
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The tEXt chunks contain the metadat
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holds information about sample dept
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Start of tEXt Chunk This tEXt chunk
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00 00 00 2074 45 58 7453 6F 66 74 @
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order to establish if the software
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Each piece of software installed by
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which is present in the subrecords
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5.6.2 The modification of subrecord
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ascertain if unused subrecords woul
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in thumbnail view. This shows that
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5.9.1 Metadata There are three dist
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only information which does not con
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information in the .thumbnails cach
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uses substantially more checks whic
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any manipulation to appear as stand
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highlighting the need for understan
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elationship between information con
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document the state of a default Win
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Figure 6-1: Directory structure for
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Clone 1-8: Directories at level 0 w
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Figure 6-2: The centralised thumbna
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Start of Record 87 F7 6A 62 4B 7B C
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Start of standard thumbnail cache s
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Start of subrecord 14F8CE010 43 4D
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6.5 Identifying the behaviour The t
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greater than the maximum size image
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experiment was repeated with a non-
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to be shown [Douglas, 2009].Figure
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6.5.1.2 Circumstances where informa
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thumbnail cache based solely upon t
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the cache to remove inactive record
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6.6.1 Windows.edb The database for
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Figure 6-10: Identifying the Defaul
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thumbnail view for 30 seconds. Upon
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checks are performed on the associa
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showing a relationship between info
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The type of a file can be identifie
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The event timeline created could th
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6.9.2 Media thumbnails In Windows 7
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the provenance of artefacts. This i
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6.10.2 Interpretation of Results An
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however it is still possible to tam
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implementations of the thumbnail ca
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valid results only when the file is
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7.3.1 Statistical Methods If docume
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ate for HTML and JPEG files [Veenma
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Having described current methods fo
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previous experiments or downloaded
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L2: The fragment is part of a visua
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Table 7-1: Breakdown of file fragme
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approximately half the data in Data
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Table 7-3: A list of thumbnail cach
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Figure 7-2: Classifications for thu
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7.7.2 H2 For the identification of
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Relative offset: 48 0B 09 0C 11 0F
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The Bayesian Network takes into acc
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Figure 7-3: Bayesian network for H1
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Actual Fragment Type(Percentage) 7.
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Actual Fragment Type(Percentage) Ta
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Table 7-19: Method 4 Results for th
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more suited to pattern recognition
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and 2. This is possible because the
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This chapter has successfully ident
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8.2 Problem Definition In the intro
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information to examine at the end o
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files is described on the Joint Pho
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were not from thumbnail cache files
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In order to identify potential H3 f
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Actual Fragment Type (Percentage) p
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Figure 8-3: A summary of the hybrid
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cache file fragments. The headers i
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follow the standard PNG specificati
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then be viewed by an analyst and us
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Actual Fragment Type (Percentage) T
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8.8 Discussion The end aim of Chapt
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identification method into stages l
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9 Thumbnail cache fragment reassemb
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Once the fragments have been identi
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9.3.2 Logging In order to maintain
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H1:Thumbcache_idx.db file H2: Image
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Therefore this research assumes tha
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ecords and 2 partial records. The n
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equirement for generating table siz
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100% success rate, with 0% false po
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then stored and marked as a complet
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Once a start of file fragment has b
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number of fragments which contain o
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Figure 9-7: Reassembling an image b
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As the number of fragments being an
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file fragment identification on sto
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Linux Category_4: The last fragment
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Table 9-1: Results from reassembly
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