Third-party applications are commonly used by smartphone users. Android users download and install several apps from app stores, such as Google Play. During forensic investigations, it is often helpful to perform an analysis of these apps to retrieve valuable data and to detect any malware. For instance, a photo vault app might lock sensitive images present on the device. Hence, it would be of great significance to have the knowledge to identify the passcode for the photo vault app. Also, apps, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype, and so on, are widely used these days, and they are often the source of valuable data that aids in cracking a case. Hence, it would be important to know what kind of data these apps store and the location of this data. While the data extraction and data recovery techniques discussed in earlier chapters provide access to valuable data, app analysis would help us gain information about the specifics...
Practical Mobile Forensics - Second Edition
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Overview of this book
Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This book is an update to Practical Mobile Forensics and it delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today's world.
We will deep dive into mobile forensics techniques in iOS 8 - 9.2, Android 4.4 - 6, and Windows Phone devices. We will demonstrate the latest open source and commercial mobile forensics tools, enabling you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. You will learn how to introspect and retrieve data from cloud, and document and prepare reports for your investigations.
By the end of this book, you will have mastered the current operating systems and techniques so you can recover data from mobile devices by leveraging open source solutions.
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Practical Mobile Forensics - Second Edition
Credits
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Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Mobile Forensics
Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices
iOS Forensic Tools
Data Acquisition from iOS Devices
Data Acquisition from iOS Backups
iOS Data Analysis and Recovery
Understanding Android
Android Forensic Setup and Pre Data Extraction Techniques
Android Data Extraction Techniques
Android Data Analysis and Recovery
Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering
Windows Phone Forensics
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