Forensic Analysis of “WhatsApp” Artifacts in Android without Root
Mohammad Shadeed, Layth Abu Arram, Majdi Owda · Advances in Science Technology and Engineering Systems Journal · 2022
WhatsApp application is considered the largest messaging application around the world and an important source of information, they just incorporated a new technique that operates on end-to-end encryption, which presents a significant problem for forensic investigators and analysts.This study describes how to recover the encryption key from WhatsApp to decrypt WhatsApp databases and retrieve important artifacts displayed and saved in the Android system without rooting the device.As a means of presenting and analyzing artifacts taken from the most recent version of WhatsApp to signs of fresh and important evidence and artifacts to assist investigators and forensic analysts in the investigation.As a result, various techniques, devices, and software may now be utilized for WhatsApp digital forensics.The findings of this study showed a variety of artifacts in the internal memory unit utilized by the Android system for the WhatsApp application, which might aid digital forensic examiners in their examination of WhatsApp on the Android system without the need to root the device.