2023 Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing (CSCE)
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Abstract

As the acquiring of Ubiquitous Communications is growing with exponential pace, cybercrime is also expanding, and forensics crime investigation is evolving into more challenging issues which need to be confronted. For the last decades, email has been imperative communication within organizations, and internet. For that reason, email is also a primary source for criminal activities on the internet. Email forensics crime investigation requires effective email forensic planning and efficient tools for forensic analysis. Email forensics is dedicated to investigating, extracting, analyzing, and exporting emails to collect digital evidence as findings to solve crimes and certain incidents, in a forensically sound manner. PST files, are one of the most important file types during investigations. The research topic compares various methods to repair a corrupt email container file “PST” along with recovering the deleted email files with attachments. Our research aim is to help forensic professionals, forensics researchers and law enforcement agencies choose an appropriate tool for a particular task which is fixing and recovering emails for better digital evidence carving and repair. We evaluate the tools based on the ability to repair an email container, emails recovered along with metadata and hash function values, graphical user interface as well as comparison of various other features. We have used Enron email dataset for the analysis.
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