• Maitry Yadav
• Ms.Chandresh Parekh

Mobile applications process a significant amount of user information. A large amount of sensitive information is stored locally on smartphones. Therefore, acquiring and analyzing artifacts generated by mobile applications is a crucial and necessary step in the forensic analysis of mobile devices. Digital evidence from smartphone instant messaging applications is potentially useful in many types of criminal investigation and court proceedings. Text messages have been an important component of the evidence presented in numerous high profile cases in recent years, the instant messaging application like WhatsApp , hike, line, Telegram, Snapchat, etc offer users a free or very low cost alternative to SMS for text messaging purposes, and frequently offer other additional features. It is therefore unsurprising that such instant messaging applications have become extremely popular, as a result of which, it is reasonable to expect that more and more cases will involve messages originally sent via such applications

Android Forensic, Social-messaging Application Forensic

"FORENSIC ANALYSIC OF ANDROID SOCIAL MESSAGING APPLICATION ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.496-500, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C81.pdf

"FORENSIC ANALYSIC OF ANDROID SOCIAL MESSAGING APPLICATION ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp496-500, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C81.pdf