Abstract:Network forensics is an important extension to present security infrastructure,and is becoming the research focus of forensic investigators and network security researchers.However many challenges still exist in conducting network forensics:The sheer amount of data generated by the network;the comprehensibility of evidences extracted from collected data;the efficiency of evidence analysis methods,etc.Against above challenges,by taking the advantage of both the great learning capability and the comprehensibility of the analyzed results of decision tree technology and fuzzy logic,the researcher develops a fuzzy decision tree based network forensics system to aid an investigator in analyzing computer crime in network environments and automatically extract digital evidence.At the end of the paper,the experimental comparison results between our proposed method and other popular methods are presented.Experimental results show that the system can classify most kinds of events (91.16% correct classification rate on average),provide analyzed and comprehensible information for a forensic expert and automate or semi-automate the process of forensic analysis.