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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By : Igor Mikhaylov
Book Image

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

Parsing plist with Apple Plist Viewer


The Oxygen Forensic program has been already described previously in Chapter 1, SIM Cards Acquisition and Analysis. This program contains the Apple Plist Viewer module, which can be used for viewing and analyzing the contents of a plist-file.

How to do it…

  1. Double-click the Oxygen Forensic icon to start. In the program menu, select Tools and then Apple Plist Viewer:

Apple Plist Viewer startup

  1. The Windows window will appear; you need to select the plist-file which will be analyzed. In this example, the History.plist file was analyzed. After file selection, click Open.
  2. After that, the main window of the Apple Plist Viewer opens, where the result of the selected plist-file will be displayed: 

Displaying the analysis result of the plist-file in Classic mode

The viewing of the results is possible in two modes, Classic mode and Simple mode:

Displaying the analysis result of the plist-file in Simple mode

  1. Switching between the modes can be done by clicking the View mode...