RAM FORENSICS AGAINST CYBER CRIMES INVOLVING FILES
Mohammed I. Al-Saleh, Ziad A. Al-Sharif · 2013
Cyber crimes are explosively increasing as a result of the wide deployment of the Internet. Breaking into others ’ machines to steal their valuable infor-mation (such as credit card numbers) or execute un-wanted code, threatening innocent people, pirating copyrighted software, and distributing malicious soft-ware are examples of such crimes. Digital Forensics (DF) techniques are utilized to accuse cyber crimi-nals and prove them guilty. This paper observes that many different violations explicitly or implicitly in-volve files. A file is a logical entity that might oc-cupy different physical locations in the system. Ex-plicit actions that involve files include directly down-loading them from the Internet resources or copying