Drone forensics: Examination and analysis

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Abstract

Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, provides unique functionalities, which allows area surveillance, inspection, surveying, unarmed cargo, armed attack machines, and aerial photography. Drones are susceptible to GPS spoofing attacks, integrity attacks and de-authentication attacks, which can allow criminals to access data, intercept the drone and use it commit a crime. Thus, this paper is presented to report on potential attacks against the Parrot Bebop 2 drone, and the ability for an investigator to collect evidence about the attacks on the drone. This paper aims at examining the possibility of establishing ownership and collecting data to reconstruct events, linking the drone controller with the drone to prove ownership, flight origins and other potentially useful information necessary to identify the proprietor of a crime. In addition, we have also proposed small-scale drone ontology for modelling drone context data, and simple forensic processing framework for small-scale drones.

ISSN

1751-911X

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers

Volume

11

Issue

3

First Page

245

Last Page

264

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Context data, Digital forensics, Drone attack, Drone ontology, Drone security, Investigation

Scopus ID

85068339008

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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