Forensic Analysis Study of Android-based Airlines Applications

Abstract

IT industry has evolved exponentially in the last two decades. Businesses have flourished by changing their business models using technology. Airlines are one of the business industries that have adopted a well schemed technical architecture to expand their scope. As this business is growing, security concerns of personal & financial information are rapidly increasing. The IT sector of airlines have made it convenient for customers to book flights with respective applications despite that there are numerous security concerns that come along with it. Airlines apps store customer Personal Identifiable Information-PII, transactions history and balance related data which can be used for investigation purpose and at the same time this information can also be used by ill-minded activists. In this study, we will investigate the well-known Airlines mobile applications to identify the vulnerabilities, security issues while with the motive of forensics analysis as well. The artifacts collected from applications will be presented in the form of analysis which will assist forensics investigators to have a better insight towards the behavior of such Applications to support the evidences for court of law etc.