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iOS Forensics Cookbook

By : Bhanu Birani, Mayank Birani
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iOS Forensics Cookbook

By: Bhanu Birani, Mayank Birani

Overview of this book

Mobile device forensics is a branch of digital forensics that involves the recovery of evidence or data in a digital format from a device without affecting its integrity. With the growing popularity of iOS-based Apple devices, iOS forensics has developed immense importance. To cater to the need, this book deals with tasks such as the encryption and decryption of files, various ways to integrate techniques withsocial media, and ways to grab the user events and actions on the iOS app. Using practical examples, we’ll start with the analysis keychain and raw disk decryption, social media integration, and getting accustomed to analytics tools. You’ll also learn how to distribute the iOS apps without releasing them to Apple’s App Store. Moving on, the book covers test flights and hockey app integration, the crash reporting system, recovery tools, and their features. By the end of the book, using the aforementioned techniques, you will be able to successfully analyze iOS-based devices forensically.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Integrating HockeyApp


HockeyApp is a widely used app distribution platform. It allows users to deploy and distribute apps. HockeyApp provides you with a number of features. In this section, you will learn the necessary steps to get started with HockeyApp's integration with iOS apps.

Getting ready

These are the preliminary requirements to get started with HockeyApp:

  1. Go to http://hockeyapp.net/features/.

  2. We need to sign up on the HockeyApp portal.

  3. We need to activate the account and have to fill in all the preliminary information in the account details section. The final account details page should look similar to the following screenshot:

This completes our registration on HockeyApp.

  1. Once you sign up, you will be using the general account, using which you can add any apps. You can start using the one-month trial. This trial will allow you to use all the features for one month.

  2. Go to the account settings using the top-right button of the web page as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Now, navigate...