start-ver=1.4 cd-journal=joma no-vol=12835 cd-vols= no-issue= article-no= start-page=64 end-page=73 dt-received= dt-revised= dt-accepted= dt-pub-year=2021 dt-pub=20210827 dt-online= en-article= kn-article= en-subject= kn-subject= en-title= kn-title=(Short Paper) Evidence Collection and Preservation System with Virtual Machine Monitoring en-subtitle= kn-subtitle= en-abstract= kn-abstract=In a system audit and verification, it is important to securely collect and preserve evidence of execution environments, execution processes, and program execution results. Evidence-based verification of program processes ensures their authenticity; for example, the processes include no altered/infected program library. This paper proposes a solution for collection of evidence on program libraries based on Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). The solution can solve semantic gap by obtaining library file path names. This paper also shows a way to obtain hash values of library files from a guest OS. Furthermore, this paper provides examples of evidence on program xecution and the overhead of the solution. en-copyright= kn-copyright= en-aut-name=NakamuraToru en-aut-sei=Nakamura en-aut-mei=Toru kn-aut-name= kn-aut-sei= kn-aut-mei= aut-affil-num=1 ORCID= en-aut-name=ItoHiroshi en-aut-sei=Ito en-aut-mei=Hiroshi kn-aut-name= kn-aut-sei= kn-aut-mei= aut-affil-num=2 ORCID= en-aut-name=KiyomotoShinsaku en-aut-sei=Kiyomoto en-aut-mei=Shinsaku kn-aut-name= kn-aut-sei= kn-aut-mei= aut-affil-num=3 ORCID= en-aut-name=YamauchiToshihiro en-aut-sei=Yamauchi en-aut-mei=Toshihiro kn-aut-name= kn-aut-sei= kn-aut-mei= aut-affil-num=4 ORCID= affil-num=1 en-affil=KDDI Research, Inc. kn-affil= affil-num=2 en-affil=Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University kn-affil= affil-num=3 en-affil=KDDI Research, Inc. kn-affil= affil-num=4 en-affil=Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University kn-affil= en-keyword=Virtual machine introspection kn-keyword=Virtual machine introspection en-keyword=Forensics kn-keyword=Forensics en-keyword=OS security kn-keyword=OS security END