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Learning Android Forensics

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Learning Android Forensics

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Learning Android Forensics
Apr, 2015 | 322 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Android Forensics
Learning Android Forensics
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Preface
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1
Introducing Android Forensics
Introducing Android Forensics
Mobile forensics
The mobile forensics approach
Challenges in mobile forensics
The Android architecture
Android security
2
Setting Up an Android Forensic Environment
Setting Up an Android Forensic Environment
The Android forensic setup
The Android SDK
Connecting and accessing an Android device from the workstation
Android Debug Bridge
Rooting Android
ADB on a rooted device
Summary
3
Understanding Data Storage on Android Devices
Understanding Data Storage on Android Devices
Android partition layout
Android file hierarchy
Application data storage on the device
Android filesystem overview
Summary
4
Extracting Data Logically from Android Devices
Extracting Data Logically from Android Devices
Logical extraction overview
Manual ADB data extraction
ADB backup extractions
ADB Dumpsys
Bypassing Android lock screens
Cracking an Android pattern lock
Android SIM card extractions
Issues and opportunities with Android Lollipop
Summary
5
Extracting Data Physically from Android Devices
Extracting Data Physically from Android Devices
Physical extraction overview
Extracting data physically with dd
Extracting data physically with nanddump
Analyzing a full physical image
Imaging and analyzing Android RAM
Acquiring Android SD cards
Advanced forensic methods
Summary
6
Recovering Deleted Data from an Android Device
Recovering Deleted Data from an Android Device
An overview of data recovery
Recovering data deleted from an SD card
Recovering data deleted from internal memory
Analyzing backups
Summary
7
Forensic Analysis of Android Applications
Forensic Analysis of Android Applications
Application analysis
Determining what apps are installed
Wi-Fi analysis
Contacts/call analysis
SMS/MMS analysis
User dictionary analysis
Gmail analysis
Google Chrome analysis
Google Maps analysis
Google Hangouts analysis
Google Keep analysis
Google Plus analysis
Facebook analysis
Facebook Messenger analysis
Skype analysis
Snapchat analysis
Viber analysis
Tango analysis
WhatsApp analysis
Kik analysis
WeChat analysis
Application reverse engineering
Summary
8
Android Forensic Tools Overview
Android Forensic Tools Overview
ViaExtract
Autopsy
ViaLab Community Edition
Summary
Conclusion
Index
Index

Summary

This chapter was an overview of a few free tools available for Android forensic examiners. These tools are summarized in the following table:

Tool

Features

ViaExtract

  • Free, requires registration and an active Internet connection

  • Logical extractions via an application pushed to the device

  • Backup extractions

  • Filesystem extractions if device is rooted

  • Roots devices

  • Bypasses screen locks without root by pushing an application to the device

Autopsy

  • Free and open source

  • Used to examine extractions done by other tools

  • Allows keyword searching, hash lists, and other common forensic methods

  • Powerful timeline feature

  • Can recover deleted data from supported filesystems

ViaLab

  • Free, requires registration and an active Internet connection

  • Allows an examiner to run an application from the APK and determine data storage locations

  • Runs the application in an emulator or on a test device

  • Valuable tool to show an examiner where data is stored in an app's directory, as well as see the functionality of the...

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