E-Mail Forensic Investigation Techniques
E-mail forensics refers to the study of source and content of e-mail as evidence to spot the actual sender and recipient of a message, data/time of transmission, detailed record of e-mail transaction, intent of the sender, etc. This study involves investigation of metadata, keyword searching, port scanning, etc. for authorship attribution and identification of e-mail scams. Various approaches that are used for e-mail forensic are described in and are briefly defined below: 5.1. Header Analysis …