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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

Android malware


As Android's market share continues to increase, so do attacks or malware targeted at Android users. Mobile malware is a broad term that refers to a piece of software that performs unintended actions and includes Trojans, spyware, adware, ransomware, and others. According to Pulse Secure, 97 percent of mobile malware is focused at the Android operating system (https://www.scmagazineuk.com/updated-97-of-malicious-mobile-malware-targets-android/article/535410/). As per statistics released by G DATA software, almost 4,900 new Android samples are being discovered every day. The following URL will take you to a sample screenshot that shows the rise of Android malware over the past few years, referenced from https://www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/2017/04/29712-8-400-new-android-malware-samples-every-day.

One of the primary reasons for this situation is that, unlike Apple's App Store, which is tightly controlled by the company, Google's Play Store is an open ecosystem without any detailed...