Detection and Mitigation of Anti-Forensics

Abstract—With the advances in IT, digital forensics became an
important part of the juridical system. On the other hand, cybercriminals
have been developing counter tactics against digital
forensics for fleeing from the justice. Those tactics are grouped
under the term “anti-forensics”. Anti-forensics includes data
hiding, artifact wiping and trail obfuscation techniques which
aim to subvert, hinder or make dysfunctional the digital forensic
analysis. There are more than 300 anti-forensics related tools and
methods. Categorization of, detection the use and mitigation
against anti-forensics’ related resources do improve digital
forensic analysis processes. Therefore, this research aims to
provide categorization of anti-forensics techniques by explaining
how cyber-criminals use the tools and also aims to provide
counter methods or mitigation techniques.
Keywords-component; computer forensics; anti-forensics