Program Studi Teknik Informatika
Fakultas Teknik – Universitas Surabaya
Social Media Forensics
Program Studi Teknik Informatika
Fakultas Teknik – Universitas Surabaya
Social Media Evidence: What you put on
Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or Youtube?
Background
Picture-Sharing
Social Media
Dating Social
Media
Direct Message Multiplayer Games
Professional Social
Media
Company
Collaboration
FACEBOOK
Facebook Produces Evidence
• Party Admissions – What Facebook data?
– Posts, E-mail, Friends
• State of Mind – What Facebook data?
– Status Updates
• Witness Credibility - What Facebook data?
– Posts, E-mail, Places, Friends, Contact Info
• Witness Character - What Facebook data?
– Photos, Videos, Likes, Apps
Why is Facebook the New Confessional?
• Speed and breadth amplify communication velocity
• Insecure communication
– Privacy controls constantly changing and often misunderstood
– Risk of impersonation by fake profiles – e.g. defamation
• Rapid, short and snappy communication
– Not reviewed, nor proofread; often grossly inaccurate
– Lacking context and precise meaning
– Interpretation often left to reader
• Lack of control over content – often ‘goes viral’
• Tacitly encourages candor as key social behavior
– Evidence often surprisingly relevant, incriminating, and powerful for
impeachment
“Frictionless Sharing” – Oversharing
Automatic, Passive, Real-Time Updates
• Logging into web sites with Facebook identity can trigger automatic
sharing on Facebook of activity on external sites:
– Yahoo! News, Washington Post, The Guardian
– Spotify, Rhapsody
– Netflix, Hulu
Facebook Graph Search
• Facebook Graph Search
SOCIAL MEDIA FORENSICS
Social Media – Law Enforcement
• “As a prosecutor, the first thing I do when I get a case is to Google
the victim, the suspect, and all the material witnesses. I run them all
through Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Youtube, and see what I might
get. I also do a ‘Google image search’’ and see what pops up.
Sometimes there’s nothing, but other times I get the goods –
pictures, status updates, and better yet, blogs and articles they’ve
written.”
– A former deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County
• “You find out about people you never would have known”
– Dean Johnston, California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement
Social Media Evidence
• What is Social Media Forensics?
• The application of computer investigation and analysis techniques to
gather information evidence from online sources, suitable for
presentation in a court of law.
Social Media Evidence
• Collection Methods:
– Screen scrape/ screen capture
– Manual documentation
– Open source tools (HTTrack)
– Commercial tool (X1)
– Web service (Pagefreezer)
– Forensics recovery
– Content subpoena
Social Media Case Investigations
• Analysis
• Information Bases
• Online Preservation and Collection
• Admissibility
Social Media - Discovery
• Electronically stored information (ESI) is data that is created,
altered, communicated and stored in digital form.
• What ESI available for review?
• Evidence strategies – computer and mobile devices
• Request for evidence
What ESI can we get for review?
content Pushed content metada
Friends, friends of friends,
connections, followers, etc.
E-mail notifications with
metadata
Site names
Status updates,
relationship status, etc.
RSS Feeds with Metadata Date/Time Stamps
Email, chat, text messages,
friend request, pokes, etc.
Uniform Resource Locators
(URLs)
Timeline (profile) – name,
picture, gender, contact,
birthday, etc.
Geoloaction information
(Check-ins)
Wall, posts, comments,
tags, etc.
IP Logs
Likes, reads, views, listens,
etc.
Login/Logout logs
Networks, groups, events,
etc.
Photos, videos, Audio,
Music, tags
Apps, App Data, Games
Evidence Strategies - Computer
• If target’s evidence is insufficient
– Social media evidence is missing
– Evidence destruction is suspected
• Should look outside Facebook
– E-mail notifications
– RSS containing content & time stamps pushed out by social media site
• Move for warrant/court order for computer forensics analysis of
opposition hard drives
• Recorver social media evidence
• What evidence? What will it look like?
SOCIAL MEDIA EVIDENCE
Exercise
Social Media Evidence
• Anatomy Twitter Tweet
– RT = re-tweet
– @xxxxx = a twitter user name
– #xxxxx = hashtag, a subject or reference identifier
– Htttp://xxx = a link, usually shortened to fit in tweet
– Max character for tweet?
– Twitter Feeds
Social Media Evidence
• Anatomy Facebook Post?
Social Media Evidence
• Anatomy LinkedIn Post & Data?
Social Media Evidence
• GeoLocation?
Social Media Evidence- Example
• Target Profile
• Profile (Timeline) information (e.g. contact information, interest, groups)
• Wall (timeline) posts and content that posted into profile (timeline)
• Photos and videos uploaded to account
• Friend list
• Notes created
• Events to which having RSVP
• Sent and received messages
• Any comments on Wall (timeline) posts, photos, and other profile content.
Evidence Elements
• IP addreses: any IP addresses that stored who accessed to account
• Login info: a list of logins that have stored
• Logout info: the ip address from which logged out
• Pending friend request: friend request that an account sent but have not accepted or rejected.
• Account status changes: dates when an account was reactivated, deactivated, disabled or
deleted.
• Poke info: information about the pokes exchanged
• Events info: events that accepted, declined, and responded maybe to by an account
• Other profile (timeline) info: the mobile phone numbers that added to an account
• City & hometown
• Family members
• Relationsship info (names and statuses)
• A list of the language that added to an account
• A history of any changes that have made to the name profile.
Social Media Evidence Recovery
• From an account  settings

Week 10 Social Media Forensics (3).pptx

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    Program Studi TeknikInformatika Fakultas Teknik – Universitas Surabaya Social Media Forensics
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    Program Studi TeknikInformatika Fakultas Teknik – Universitas Surabaya Social Media Evidence: What you put on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or Youtube?
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    Facebook Produces Evidence •Party Admissions – What Facebook data? – Posts, E-mail, Friends • State of Mind – What Facebook data? – Status Updates • Witness Credibility - What Facebook data? – Posts, E-mail, Places, Friends, Contact Info • Witness Character - What Facebook data? – Photos, Videos, Likes, Apps
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    Why is Facebookthe New Confessional? • Speed and breadth amplify communication velocity • Insecure communication – Privacy controls constantly changing and often misunderstood – Risk of impersonation by fake profiles – e.g. defamation • Rapid, short and snappy communication – Not reviewed, nor proofread; often grossly inaccurate – Lacking context and precise meaning – Interpretation often left to reader • Lack of control over content – often ‘goes viral’ • Tacitly encourages candor as key social behavior – Evidence often surprisingly relevant, incriminating, and powerful for impeachment
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    “Frictionless Sharing” –Oversharing Automatic, Passive, Real-Time Updates • Logging into web sites with Facebook identity can trigger automatic sharing on Facebook of activity on external sites: – Yahoo! News, Washington Post, The Guardian – Spotify, Rhapsody – Netflix, Hulu
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    Facebook Graph Search •Facebook Graph Search
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    Social Media –Law Enforcement • “As a prosecutor, the first thing I do when I get a case is to Google the victim, the suspect, and all the material witnesses. I run them all through Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Youtube, and see what I might get. I also do a ‘Google image search’’ and see what pops up. Sometimes there’s nothing, but other times I get the goods – pictures, status updates, and better yet, blogs and articles they’ve written.” – A former deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County • “You find out about people you never would have known” – Dean Johnston, California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement
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    Social Media Evidence •What is Social Media Forensics? • The application of computer investigation and analysis techniques to gather information evidence from online sources, suitable for presentation in a court of law.
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    Social Media Evidence •Collection Methods: – Screen scrape/ screen capture – Manual documentation – Open source tools (HTTrack) – Commercial tool (X1) – Web service (Pagefreezer) – Forensics recovery – Content subpoena
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    Social Media CaseInvestigations • Analysis • Information Bases • Online Preservation and Collection • Admissibility
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    Social Media -Discovery • Electronically stored information (ESI) is data that is created, altered, communicated and stored in digital form. • What ESI available for review? • Evidence strategies – computer and mobile devices • Request for evidence
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    What ESI canwe get for review? content Pushed content metada Friends, friends of friends, connections, followers, etc. E-mail notifications with metadata Site names Status updates, relationship status, etc. RSS Feeds with Metadata Date/Time Stamps Email, chat, text messages, friend request, pokes, etc. Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) Timeline (profile) – name, picture, gender, contact, birthday, etc. Geoloaction information (Check-ins) Wall, posts, comments, tags, etc. IP Logs Likes, reads, views, listens, etc. Login/Logout logs Networks, groups, events, etc. Photos, videos, Audio, Music, tags Apps, App Data, Games
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    Evidence Strategies -Computer • If target’s evidence is insufficient – Social media evidence is missing – Evidence destruction is suspected • Should look outside Facebook – E-mail notifications – RSS containing content & time stamps pushed out by social media site • Move for warrant/court order for computer forensics analysis of opposition hard drives • Recorver social media evidence • What evidence? What will it look like?
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    Social Media Evidence •Anatomy Twitter Tweet – RT = re-tweet – @xxxxx = a twitter user name – #xxxxx = hashtag, a subject or reference identifier – Htttp://xxx = a link, usually shortened to fit in tweet – Max character for tweet? – Twitter Feeds
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    Social Media Evidence •Anatomy Facebook Post?
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    Social Media Evidence •Anatomy LinkedIn Post & Data?
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    Social Media Evidence-Example • Target Profile • Profile (Timeline) information (e.g. contact information, interest, groups) • Wall (timeline) posts and content that posted into profile (timeline) • Photos and videos uploaded to account • Friend list • Notes created • Events to which having RSVP • Sent and received messages • Any comments on Wall (timeline) posts, photos, and other profile content.
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    Evidence Elements • IPaddreses: any IP addresses that stored who accessed to account • Login info: a list of logins that have stored • Logout info: the ip address from which logged out • Pending friend request: friend request that an account sent but have not accepted or rejected. • Account status changes: dates when an account was reactivated, deactivated, disabled or deleted. • Poke info: information about the pokes exchanged • Events info: events that accepted, declined, and responded maybe to by an account • Other profile (timeline) info: the mobile phone numbers that added to an account • City & hometown • Family members • Relationsship info (names and statuses) • A list of the language that added to an account • A history of any changes that have made to the name profile.
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    Social Media EvidenceRecovery • From an account  settings