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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

By : Oleg Skulkin, Donnie Tindall, Rohit Tamma
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Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

By: Oleg Skulkin, Donnie Tindall, Rohit Tamma

Overview of this book

Many forensic examiners rely on commercial, push-button tools to retrieve and analyze data, even though there is no tool that does either of these jobs perfectly. Learning Android Forensics will introduce you to the most up-to-date Android platform and its architecture, and provide a high-level overview of what Android forensics entails. You will understand how data is stored on Android devices and how to set up a digital forensic examination environment. As you make your way through the chapters, you will work through various physical and logical techniques to extract data from devices in order to obtain forensic evidence. You will also learn how to recover deleted data and forensically analyze application data with the help of various open source and commercial tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore malware analysis so that you’ll be able to investigate cybersecurity incidents involving Android malware. By the end of this book, you will have a complete understanding of the Android forensic process, you will have explored open source and commercial forensic tools, and will have basic skills of Android malware identification and analysis.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

This chapter has covered many topics related to logical extractions of Android devices. As a recap, the various methods and their requirements are as follows:

Method

Requirements

ADB pull

  • USB Debugging enabled
  • Secure USB Debugging bypassed on 4.2.2+
  • Root access to obtain user data

ADB pull from Recovery Mode

  • Must be a custom recovery to enable ADB access
  • Root access to obtain user data

Fastboot to boot from custom recovery image

  • Unlocked bootloader
  • Boot image for device

ADB backup

  • USB Debugging enabled
  • Secure USB Debugging bypassed on 4.2.2+
  • Must be done from a running device (not Recovery Mode)

ADB Dumpsys

  • USB Debugging enabled
  • Secure USB Debugging bypassed on 4.2.2+
  • Must be done from a running device (not Recovery Mode)

SIM card extraction

  • None, should be done independent of device

Additionally...