Persistent Browser Storage Data Extractor

With the recent development in the World Wide Web, browsers have become more sophisticated, and they can store data locally to provide a faster and user-friendly browsing experience. The locally stored data can be the treasure of information for the digital investigators because using this information can help in solving a crime by discovering any suspect-related information. Browsers can store data in various storage areas such as History, Local Storage, IndexedDB, Cookies, etc. As a digital forensic investigator, it can become tedious to go to every storage mechanism and look for the stored information for a particular website visit. Therefore, this research is going to provide a mechanism, a Proof of Concept user-friendly GUI-based application, where digital investigators can extract all related data about a particular website visit. This work will incorporate three different browsers, Google Chrome, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox. Not only showing the aggregated view of the extracted data, but digital investigators will also have an option to search data by using a specific domain or event and get all the information related to that domain or event in a unified format.