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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By : Igor Mikhaylov
Book Image

Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By: Igor Mikhaylov

Overview of this book

Considering the emerging use of mobile phones, there is a growing need for mobile forensics. Mobile forensics focuses specifically on performing forensic examinations of mobile devices, which involves extracting, recovering and analyzing data for the purposes of information security, criminal and civil investigations, and internal investigations. Mobile Forensics Cookbook starts by explaining SIM cards acquisition and analysis using modern forensics tools. You will discover the different software solutions that enable digital forensic examiners to quickly and easily acquire forensic images. You will also learn about forensics analysis and acquisition on Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry devices. Next, you will understand the importance of cloud computing in the world of mobile forensics and understand different techniques available to extract data from the cloud. Going through the fundamentals of SQLite and Plists Forensics, you will learn how to extract forensic artifacts from these sources with appropriate tools. By the end of this book, you will be well versed with the advanced mobile forensics techniques that will help you perform the complete forensic acquisition and analysis of user data stored in different devices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Samsung Android device acquisition with Smart Switch


Smart Switch is a canned utility of Samsung for creating backups of modern Samsung devices. Smart Switch replaced Kies, which is currently used to create backups of older Samsung devices. The specific feature of Smart Switch is that it can be used for data extraction from a Samsung device even if the USB Debugging function is not activated in the device. As a rule, Smart Switch is used when there is no other way to extract data.

Getting ready

Go to the web-site of the program (https://www.samsung.com/us/smart-switch/). There you can find versions of the program both for PC and for MAC available for downloading. Select the version you need and click on it. When the program is downloaded, double-click on the downloaded file. The installation of the program will start.

How to do it…

  1. If the Samsung device is not connected or the device driver is not installed, after starting the program, you will see an animated picture suggesting to connect the...