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Digital forensic analysis of discord on google chrome

2022; Elsevier BV; Volume: 44; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.fsidi.2022.301479

2666-2825

Khushi Gupta, Cihan Varol, Bing Zhou,

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

Over the past decade, social media applications have significantly increased their market share and garnered a wide user base. However, these applications have also attracted the attention of criminals desiring to exploit the apps to support illicit operations due to the low barrier to entry and ease of usage. A digital forensic investigation of these applications can reveal valuable information about criminal activity and the suspect. Discord is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that enables text, image, video, and audio chats. It has grown in popularity, and as a result, it is subject to increased use by cybercriminals. In this paper, we examine the remnants of the increasingly popular social media application ''Discord" when used on the Google Chrome web browser. We recovered various artifacts such as payment information, sent messages, account settings, conversations, uploaded attachments, and much more, all of which could be utilized in a forensic investigation.