A Forensic approach to Perform Android Mobile Forensic Analysis and Locating Artifacts from Digital Evidence

: With the evolving changes in Cyber World, mobile phone platform has risen and become an indispensable tool for crime-fighting and criminal investigation. The no of mobile phone users worldwide today increases three million and is forecast to further, and the majority of people depend on it for communication and business-related matters. While mobile phones are used for the positive developments of our life, it is used by criminals as a communication medium for their modus operandi. We need to understand how to leverage the data from the device in an appropriate method that can make or break your case and your future as an investigator. Therefore, there is prospective information stored in mobile phones that can be used for digital evidence as part of an investigation. However, the investigators may be facing difficulties in extracting crucial data, artifacts, and vital information is stored on the mobile phone. The segregate of mobile forensics knowledge does not only make an investigation problem for new forensic investigators, resulting in a substantial waste of time but also leads to ambiguity in the conceptualization and terminologies of the mobile forensics domain. This work aims to locate the methods of extracting and analyzing data, artifacts from an Android-based mobile phone. We managed to obtain email, contact, messages, calendar, audio, videos, social media (i.e WhatsApp), cache memory, and images data that can be used as digital evidence in an investigation.