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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

Parsing plist with Belkasoft Evidence Center


The Belkasoft Evidence Center program has already been described previously in Chapter 2, Android Devices Acquisition. This program has the functionality for analyzing the plist-files of mobile devices. In this chapter, we will describe how to analyze plist-files via Belkasoft Evidence Center.

How to do it…

  1. Double-click on the Belkasoft Evidence Center icon. When the program starts, click New Case. In the opened window, enter the data for the new case, specify the path where the case files will be saved, and click the Create and open button.
  1. Since in the Belkasoft Evidence Center program there is no option to select a separate file for analysis, you must specify the folder that contains one or more plist-file as a data source.
  1. In the new Add data source window, specify the path to the plist-files that you want to analyze and click the Next button:

Add data source window

  1. In the next window, select the artifacts categories that are relevant to the iOS...