Android digital forensics — Simplifying Android forensics using regular expressions

The advancement of technology has increased the computing power of mobile devices and at the same time keeping their size small enough to fit inside user's pocket. Therefore, digital evidence can be collected not only from computers but also from any other electronic devices which stores and process user related data. Since digital forensics community has done minimal research on mobile devices forensics, forensic investigators are struggling without a standard approach or procedure to follow during investigations. Therefore, validated frameworks that can be used to collect evidence from mobile devices are virtually not existent in current digital forensics environment. The aim of this research is to present an appropriate framework for mobile device forensics which can be used by forensic investigators during their investigation. Another important objective of the research is to identify how regular expressions can be used to simplify evidence examination and analysis in android forensics.