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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 Elcomsoft iOS Toolkit


Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit is a commercial set of tools allowing you to make various extractions from Apple mobile devices. The following actions can be performed via Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit:

  1. Recovery of the password for a locked Apple mobile device (up to and including iPhone 4).
  2. Creation of a physical dump of an Apple mobile device (including the blocked, up to and including iPhone 4).
  3. Extraction of the file system of an Apple mobile device (for jailbroken devices).
  4. Creation of Apple mobile device backup.
  5. And much more.

Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit supports data extraction from 32-bit and 64-bit Apple mobile devices.

In this chapter, an example of the creation of a physical dump from an iPhone 4 via Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit will be shown.

Getting ready

Download the program using the link specified in your license and unpack it. Connect a hardware key of Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit to the computer.

How to do it…

  1. Go to the folder...