DOI: 10.36347/sjet.2019.v07i03.002

Pages: 74-84

The trend in social networking is changing people's life style. Therefore, the modes of cybercrime have also changed in accordance with the users’ activities. In order to identify crimes, it is necessary to use appropriate forensic techniques to retrieve these traces and evidence. This study considers the social network, WhatsApp Messenger, as the research subject. We analyze the artifacts left on the WhatsApp Messenger application and show evidences of gathering on the Android platform. This study explores the differences between the traces that are left on Non-Rooted and Rooted Android platform. It proves to be helpful to forensic analysts and practitioners because it assists them in mapping and finding digital evidences of WhatsApp Messenger on Android smart phone.