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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By : Igor Mikhaylov
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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

Apple device acquisition with libmobiledevice


Libmobiledevice is a cross-platform software package that you can use for logical data extraction from Apple's mobile devices. There are versions of this software for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Getting ready

Download the libmobiledevice archive and unpack it.

How to do it…

  1. Unlock the device and connect it to the computer.
  2. Click Trust in response to the request that appears on the screen of your mobile device.
  3. Enter the command: device_id.exe -l. The -l flag is used to get information about all Apple mobile devices connected to the computer. The device UDID was received in response to the request: 1f836c8471c4e60ce771e2fdcf14d7e1b31e8b15:

The result of the command device_id.exe -l

  1. The device UDID can be used to obtain more information about the connected device. Enter the command: ideviceinfo.exe -u 1f836c8471c4e60ce771e2fdcf14d7e1b31e8b15. The result of the command execution will be a large amount of information about the device:

 The result of the command...