Al-Hikmah University Journal

The field of digital forensics is concerned with finding and presenting evidence sourced from digital devices, such as computers and other digital devices. The complexity of such digital evidence is constantly increasing as is the volume of data which might contain evidence. The exploration of digital evidence sourced from diverse devices becomes paramount in this era of Covid-19 as many Youths are idle looking for ways of bringing solace to their souls. The software engineering methods adopted for study are the Design Science Method and Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology with Resource Description Framework (RDF) data Model. The representational approach is used as a foundation of a novel analysis technique which uses knowledge based system to correlate related events into higher level events, which correspond to situation of forensic interest. The PHP/MYSQL programming language was used in developing the software and implementing the system. The new integrated digital forensics system for tracking cyber criminals will eliminate the problems observed in the physical and conventional digital forensics system by hypothesizing a general and formal representational approach which will benefit digital forensics by enabling timestamp which are pervasive to be attached to event logs.  Overall, the steps to actualize reliable digital evidence follows the sequence: Event Sequence, Event Construction and finally Digital Tracking.