Digital forensic analysis of the private mode of browsers on Android

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2023.103425
• Publication Date: 2023-08-15T00:49:55Z
• Authors: Xosé Fernández-Fu...; Tomás F. Pena; José C. Cabaleiro
• Keywords: Web browser

The smartphone has become an essential electronic device in our daily lives. We carry most precious and important data on it, from family videos of the last few years to credit card information so that we can pay with phones. In addition, recent years, mobile devices have preferred for surfing web, already representing more than 50% Internet traffic. As one spend time throughout day, it is not surprising are increasingly demanding a higher level privacy. One measures introduced help us protect by isolating certain activities private mode integrated modern browsers. Of course, this feature new, been available desktop platforms decade. Reviewing literature, find several studies test correct functioning desktop. However, number conducted incredibly small. And only small, but also them perform tests using various emulators or virtual machines running obsolete versions Android. Therefore, paper apply methodology presented previous work Google Chrome, Brave, Mozilla Firefox, Tor Browser tablet Android 13 two created Emulator. results confirm these browsers do store about browsing performed file system. analysis volatile memory made possible recover username password used log website keywords typed search engine, even after had rebooted.