An Insight into File Sharing Artifacts Using Xender Application

Bluetooth is frequently used as a file sharing platform, but with the advancement in technology, a new application Xender is now used for file sharing. Xender utilizes hotspot functionality in phones to share files. Apart from all the good reasons, Xender is also being used to share illicit and illegal material, and hence Xender forensics become inevitable. The paper is focused on Xender application, its working and forensics. We study how Xender logs generated can be used to analyze the file storage artifacts, logs, activities performed by sender and receiver. This has applicability in file sharing forensics.