Web Page Forensics: A Web Spider Based Approach

Ya-Dong Li¹, Dong-Hui Hu¹, Yu-Qi Fan¹, Xin-Dong Wu^1,2

(1. School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China; 2. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA)



Abstract:

Cyber-crimes are growing rapidly, so it is important to obtain the digital evidence on the web page. Usually, people can examine the browser history on the client side and data files on the server side, but both of them have shortcomings in real criminal investigation. To overcome the weakness, this paper designs a web page forensic scheme to snapshot the pages from web servers with the help of web spider. Also, it designs several steps to improve the trustworthiness of these pages. All the pages will be dumped in local database which can be presented as reliable evidence on the court.

Key words:  web page  digital forensics  web spider

DOI：10.11916/j.issn.1005-9113.2014.06.009

Clc Number:TP393

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