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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Android physical dumps parsing with Encase Forensic


As mentioned before, classical tools for computer forensics also increase their functionality in the examination of mobile devices. This is due to the fact that every year the number of mobile devices that come for examination to forensic laboratories increases. It means that experts need software for their analysis. Encase Forensic is following this trend. If we take a look at User Manual Encase Forensic, we can see that one third of this document is dedicated to the mobile devices' data extraction and analysis, their physical dumps, and backups. Encase Forensic can extract data from Android mobile devices and analyze their backups and physical dumps.

In this chapter, we will describe the analysis of an Android mobile device’s backup via Encase Forensic.

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