From mobile phones to court – A complete FORensic investigation chain targeting MOBILE devices

Project Information

FORMOBILE

Grant agreement ID: 832800

DOI

10.3030/832800

Project closed

EC signature date 26 April 2019

Start date 1 May 2019

End date 30 April 2022

Funded under

• Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens

Total cost

€ 6 983 030,00

EU contribution

€ 6 983 030,00

Coordinated by

HOCHSCHULE MITTWEIDA (FH)
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (15)

Report on evolving techniques in mobile clones

Report on evolving techniques in mobile clones R PU summarizing all evolving techniques in mobile clones that will hit Europe in the near future

CEN Workshop Agreement on mobile forensics

CEN Workshop Agreement on mobile forensics R PU the Agreement will be the fundament of the novel European mobile forensic standard

Annual Dissemination Report Y1

The Annual Dissemination Report (R, PU) summarises all dissemination activities of year 1.

Annual Dissemination Report

The Annual Dissemination Report R PU summarises all dissemination activities of year 3

Validation Report

Validation Report R PU the final legal assessment of the tools and results produced by the FORMOBILE consortium It aims to be a practical reference document on the relevant legal aspects

LIVEFLOW

A workflow LIVEFLOW R PU to transport a live mobile device from crime scene to forensic lab while safeguarding volatile RAM content of said phone

Final Data Management Plan

The Final Data Management Plan R PU is the last iteration of deliverable D811

Annual Dissemination Report Y2

The Annual Dissemination Report R PU summarises all dissemination activities of the year 2

Report on existing practices and standards

A Report on existing practices and standards (R, PU) that summarizes all applicable standards and best practices that are used in mobile forensics.

Criminal Procedure Report

Criminal Procedure Report (R, PU) that aims to make an assessment of the current criminal procedure legislation in regard to electronic evidence extracted from mobile devices in the initial stages of the project’s implementation. It lays the ground for further actions on the project, in order for the results from FORMOBILE to be compliant with the rules for admissibility of evidence.

Initial Data Management Plan

The Initial Data Management Plan (R, PU) defines data management for FORMOBILE.

Training Validation Report

The Training Validation Report R PU that summarizes and assesses the success of the novel curriculum and the training material

Novel Curriculum for LEAs training

A Novel Curriculum for LEAs training R PU containing consecutive modules that will allow to become an expert in mobile forensics

File Format Handbook

A File Format Handbook R PUB that summarizes the collected information about unknown file systems and file formats

List of Trainers

A List of Trainers R PU including persons that passed the train the trainers program

Ethics Requirements (3)

H - Requirement No. 4

The informed consent procedures that will be implemented for the participation of humans must be submitted as a deliverable.Templates of the informed consent forms and information sheets (in language and terms intelligible to the participants) must be submitted as a deliverable.

POPD - Requirement No. 9

Detailed information on the informed consent procedures in regard to data processing must be submitted as a deliverable.Templates of the informed consent forms and information sheets in regard to data processing (in language and terms intelligible to the participants) must be submitted as a deliverable.

POPD - Requirement No. 8

In case of further processing of previously collected personal data, an explicit confirmation that the beneficiary has lawful basis for the data processing and that the appropriate technical and organisational measures are in place to safeguard the rights of the data subjects must be submitted as a deliverable.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Initial Set of Printed and Electronic Dissemination Materials

FORMOBILE Initial Set of Printed and Electronic Dissemination Materials (DEC, PU) for project dissemination.

FORMOBILE Website

The FORMOBILE Website (DEC, PU) (www.formobile-project.eu) and social media presences.

Other (1)

Complete Set of Training Materials

A Complete Set of Training Materials OTHER PU including books webinars hardware training material and forensic images of mobile phones

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Making the Invisible Visible – Techniques for Recovering Deleted SQLite Data Records

Author(s): Dirk Pawlaszczyk, Christian Hummert
Published in: International Journal of Cyber Forensics and Advanced Threat Investigations, Issue 1/1-3, 2021, Page(s) 27-41, ISSN 2753-9997
Publisher: Concept Tech Publishing
DOI: 10.46386/ijcfati.v1i1-3.17

Mobile Forensics -The End of a Golden Age?

Author(s): Dirk Pawlaszczyk
Published in: Journal of Forensic Sciences & Criminal Investigation, Issue 15(4): 555917, 2022, ISSN 2476-1311
Publisher: JP
DOI: 10.19080/jfsci.2022.15.555917

Android apps and advertising networks - a survey on data privacy

Author(s): Dirk Pawlaszczyk; Jannik Weber; Ralf Zimmermann; Christian Hummert
Published in: International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity, Issue Vol.4 No.4, 2021, Page(s) 261 - 275, ISSN 1741-8496
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
DOI: 10.1504/ijipsi.2020.115509

Conference proceedings (2)

A Concept for a Comprehensive Understanding of Communication in Mobile Forensics

Author(s): Dirk Labudde, Michael Spranger, Jian Xi
Published in: DATA ANALYTICS 2021, 2021, Page(s) 74-76, ISBN 978-1-61208-891-4
Publisher: IARIA, 2021

Law Enforcement educational challenges for mobile forensics

Author(s): Georgina Humphries, Rune Nordvik, Harry Manifavas, Phil Cobley, Matthew Sorell
Published in: Digital Investigation, Issue vol. 38, Oct 2021, 2021
Publisher: DFRWS APAC 2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsidi.2021.301129

Other (2)

AutoPoD-Mobile – Automated data population using caselike scenarios for training and validation in mobile forensics

Author(s): Margaux Michel, Ralf Zimmermann, Dirk Pawlaszczyk
Published in: MDPI Forensics Science - Special Issue Digital Forensics, Issue 2022/2, 2022, Page(s) 302-320
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/forensicsci2020023

API-based Evidence Acquisition in the Cloud - A Survey

Author(s): Dirk Pawlaszczyk, Martin Bochmann, Philipp Engler, Christian Hummert, Coert Klaver
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Open Research Europe
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.14784.1

Monographic books (1)

Mobile Forensics – The File Format Handbook. Common File Formats and File Systems Used in Mobile Devices

Author(s): Dirk Pawlaszczyk, Christian Hummert
Published in: 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-98466-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-98467-0