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The document discusses digital artifacts found in web browsers, highlighting common elements such as downloads, bookmarks, addons, history, and auto-complete data. It compares how these artifacts are stored in Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, noting that Firefox and Chrome use user profiles in AppData, while Edge's data is more complex to locate. Additionally, it demonstrates the use of digital forensic software to retrieve browsing history and favorites from Chrome and Firefox, including sorting by visit count.

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Lesson Plan 8 Results

The document discusses digital artifacts found in web browsers, highlighting common elements such as downloads, bookmarks, addons, history, and auto-complete data. It compares how these artifacts are stored in Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, noting that Firefox and Chrome use user profiles in AppData, while Edge's data is more complex to locate. Additionally, it demonstrates the use of digital forensic software to retrieve browsing history and favorites from Chrome and Firefox, including sorting by visit count.

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ITW 3531 Module 8 Assignment

Full Name: Joshua Williams

1. What digital artifacts can be found with a typical web browser? List the common digital
artifacts across different browsers and platforms. (20 points)

Internet browsers, unsurprisingly, have literally dozens of different files keeping track of a
user’s browsing activity. Some browsers have their own unique trackers, others hide their
artifacts in specific places, but all browsers have the same general features, and as result,
leave behind the same artifacts.

The most common artifacts are:

 Downloads – Stored in a user-chosen destination, and links to where these files were
downloaded are saved by the browser, in-case the file needs to be redownloaded.

 Bookmarks – A basic feature of browsers that allow a user to pin specific websites
and pages.

 Addons and Extensions – Third party or first-party applications that enhance or


create new features for web browsers.

 History – Self-explanatory, this is the users browsing history, what pages and sites
they visited.

 Auto-Complete data – A time-saving feature that uses specific terms to fill-in text
boxes with what the browser believes the user is going to type. Often has the users
most recently or most often used words at the top of its list.
2. Use a table to summarize and compare how and where digital artifacts are stored in
Chrome, Firefox and Edge (choose one between IE and Edge). (30 points)

Artifact and Location


Browser Downloads Bookmarks Addons History Auto-Complete Data
Firefox Profile Data Profile Data Profile Data Profile Data Profile Path Located
Located in Located in Located in Located in in AppData
AppData AppData AppData AppData
Chrome User Data User Data User Data User Data User Data Located in
Located in Located in Located in Located in AppData
AppData AppData AppData AppData
Edge Webcahce Webcahce Webcahce Webcahce Windows Webcahce
Located in Located in Located in Located in Located in AppData
AppData AppData AppData AppData
Firefox and Google Chrome store all data in user profiles located in the Local Appdata file in the
User directory. The User ID is chosen by the user themselves and would be easily found by
someone digging through the files.
Microsoft Edge hides the user data within a very complicated series of files, these files have
names such as ‘Microsoft.Microsft.Edge.’, and can be quite confusing to people who don’t
already know what they’re looking for. To find any of the user data, someone will have to dig
through seven files to find the Webcache.
3. Chrome is currently the most popular web browser. Demonstrate, using screenshots and
notes, that you can use a legit digital forensic software tool to retrieve the browsing history
and favorites of Chrome (of any user/profile that you are authorized to do so). Show in a
screenshot that you can use the tool to identify which website, in the browsing history, was
visited mostly frequently in the past 7 days. (40 points)

I used the program Browsing History View (BHV) to read my Chrome History. I do not use
Chrome and am the only person who uses my computer, so I did random searching to fill its
history.

Once you open BHV, you’re given a list of


browsers for the program to read. For this
assignment I unchecked every box, except for
Chrome and Waterfox; Chrome is key to this
assignment, and Waterfox because I was
curious.

A user can choose to either go to file path C:\


Users\ Usermame \AppData\Local\Google\
Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\Cache_Data,
or use the program I did. Upon opening Browser
History View, it automatically views the browser
history.

By clicking ‘View’ on the taskbar followed by


hovering your mouse over ‘Sort by’ will activate a
drop-down menu. This menu allows the user to
select how they want to filter out the given list.
Note to self: Do not click “I’m feeling Lucky” when
searching for “Dark Souls”.

By clicking ‘Visit Count’ filter, you can organize the


history by how many times you have visited that
site. By disabling the other browsers for simplicity,
we can see my most visited tab is apparently a
Russian ‘new tab’. Somehow.
4. Choose one among the following web browsers: Edge, Firefox, or Safari. Show using
screenshots and notes that you can complete the same tasks (as in #3 above) on your
chosen web browser. (30 points)

I chose to erase, and then retrieve the history of Mozilla FireFox, as I actively use the
browser for school, it has a large history.

Much like when opening the program to


browse the history of Chrome, I uncheck
all boxes except for Firefox and Waterfox.

Once the program launches the browser will be open


and its history in plain-view of the user. As Firefox is
my secondary browser, it has a much larger history.

By clicking ‘View’ on the tool bar, you’ll open a


drop-down menu, by hovering your mouse over
‘Sort By’, you’ll see a list of selectable filters.

Selecting ‘View Count’, it will sort all items in the list


by the number of times the user has visited the site.

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