Digital Forensics Report 2022

Running head: DIGITAL FORENSICS
Digital Forensics
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Authors’ Note

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Executive Summary
This report consists of the investigated details of the Enron scandal so that the reason of the
collapse can be examined. Enron was one of the fastest growing and largest Companies. The
services that were provided by Enron were broadband services, wholesale services, services of
retail energy and services of transportation. Enron got more famous because of its scandal
incident which was the result of bankruptcy. This incident got acknowledged by every investors
and other companies. The corporate world got to know about the activities after that a
revolutionary change was observed in the corporate world. The analysis that has been conducted
is to find the details of the items that were found during the investigation. Relevant programs has
been used to find the details of the items which are the files associated to the transactions, some
deleted files, keywords that were searched over the Internet, etc. The steps that has been carried
out is discussed in detail in this report which will provide the details of the investigation.
Appropriate tools were used during the analysis of the emails that has been shared and for the
analysis of the evidences. The remaining part of the report is structured as: the description of the
report, incident, analysis of the found items, tools that were used and findings. Lastly the report
concludes with the result that were obtained.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Analysis Conducted.........................................................................................................................4
Findings.........................................................................................................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................15
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................17

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DIGITAL FORENSICS
Introduction
The Enron Scandal led to bankruptcy in October 2001, the founder of the Enron Company
was Kenneth Lay. It was the fastest growing Company and the accounting firms that were
associated are, Delloitte, Ernst & Young, PwC and KPMG and Arthur Anderson. They were
responsible for the auditing of the financial data. All the shareholders who lost their money were
the victims of the crime committed by Enron and Arthur Anderson. The information they were
using to purchase the Stock was promised to be accurate but in reality it was far from it. At the
time Enron’s bankruptcy was the largest bankruptcy that ever occurred to American history
which makes this one of the biggest scandals in American history.
The forensic tools that has been used to examine the e-mail of the employees are, Aid4mail,
Autopsy and Magnet AXIOM. Aid4mail is considered to be the essential tool for digital
forensics which supports over 40 formats of email. It has helped me in saving time, it is easy to
use and provides accurate solutions. With the help of Autopsy software, major files can be
analyzed such as HFS+, Ext3, Ext4, etc. through the process of hashing. It helps in unloading the
standard zipped files as well as extracting the exchangeable image file format. The back end of
Autopsy includes Perl language which is runnable in LINUX, UNIX, Windows and Mac-OS.
Magnet AXIOM helps me in determining the evidences as it has the capability of decrypting the
full disk and helps in accessing the file system data. For examining the evidences, artifact
explorer, registry and file system explorers, source linking methods are involved.
The files what I have got as evidences are of larger size and I have used metadata to get the
information about these files. Some files are in encrypted form therefore I have used Autopsy for
hashing decryption. I have also used the String searching procedures to find the relevant details