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Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition

By : Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
Book Image

Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition

By: Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty

Overview of this book

Covering up-to-date mobile platforms, this book will focuses on teaching you the most recent techniques for investigating mobile devices. We delve mobile forensics techniques in iOS 9-11, Android 7-8 devices, and Windows 10. 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 the cloud, and document and prepare reports of your investigations. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the current operating systems and the relevant techniques to recover data from mobile devices by leveraging open source solutions.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
iOS Data Analysis and Recovery

Chapter 11. Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering

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 a 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 is 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 of an application...