neuralnoise / social-snapshot-tool

Social Snapshot Tool: Online Social Network Forensics (initial research prototype)

Setup

socialsnapshot third-party Facebook application (php)

• Requirements: php5, php5-curl, Apache2/nginx
• Deploy php directory on webserver
• Change ownership of files to www-data
• Copy settings.inc.php.example to settings.inc.php
• Edit settings.inc.php to reflect your set-up

socialsnapshot Facebook Client (java)

• Requirement: JRE 1.6
• Copy java/socialsnapshot.config.example to java/socialsnapshot.config
• Edit settings in java/socialsnapshot.config to reflect your set-up
• Within java directory, run "ant" to rebuild client jar

Usage

Start Selenium Server

• You need a Mozilla Firefox 3.6 with selenium IDE extension
• java -jar java/server-patched.jar (selenium server)

Start client with HTTP cookie authentication ...

• java -jar socialsnapshot.jar [email protected] 'c_user=11111 lu=xxx ...'

...or start client with password authentication

• java -jar socialsnapshot.jar [email protected] "secretpw"

#Results

Contact details and socialsnapshot client log

• Local files in /results snapshot11111.csv snapshot11111.log

socialsnapshot data from third-party application

• User will be automatically notified