Conclusions and Results.
Over the
last four months analyzing Waze has had its successes and failures. After the analysis
ended I was successfully able to discover relevant artifacts such as direct
messages, GPS coordinates, text messages, and user preference files. However, it was determined that the majority
of relevant artifacts are located on a remote Waze server. This was discovered
during the memory analysis. There were numerous http calls to a Waze server proxy
protocol buffer and also generic function processes. Ultimately, my goal is for my complete paper to be publicly available soon to serve as an investigator's guide to Waze.
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| Evidence of Artifacts on Server |
Forensic Relevance and Future Implications
Waze
continues to add user’s everyday even recently surpassing 20 million users
world-wide. With a growing number of users switching to applications that
provide social media functionality, Waze will continue to gain popularity on
the mobile application markets. Recently Waze also announced an update to their
application that will only emphasize the importance of this research.
Waze announced that they have purchased a
dating application known as single-spotter. Waze intends to allow users set up their
profile in a way that allows them to view other singles within the area.
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| WazeDates |
The user can
then begin messaging singles in their area and even drive to them if that
option is enabled. This in-app
functionally will without doubt launch Waze’s popularity even more and further
create more essential digital forensic artifacts.
