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Practical Mobile Forensics

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Practical Mobile Forensics

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Overview of this book

The book is an easy-to-follow guide with clear instructions on various mobile forensic techniques. The chapters and the topics within are structured for a smooth learning curve, which will swiftly empower you to master mobile forensics. If you are a budding forensic analyst, consultant, engineer, or a forensic professional wanting to expand your skillset, this is the book for you. The book will also be beneficial to those with an interest in mobile forensics or wanting to find data lost on mobile devices. It will be helpful to be familiar with forensics in general but no prior experience is required to follow this book.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics

1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics

Mobile forensics

Mobile phone evidence extraction process

Practical mobile forensic approaches

Potential evidence stored on mobile phones

Rules of evidence

Good forensic practices

Summary

2. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices

2. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices

iPhone models

iPhone hardware

iPad models

iPad hardware

File system

The HFS Plus file system

Disk layout

iPhone operating system

Summary

3. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices

3. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices

Operating modes of iOS devices

Physical acquisition

Acquisition via a custom ramdisk

Acquisition via jailbreaking

Summary

4. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups

4. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups

iTunes backup

iCloud backup

Summary

5. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery

5. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery

Timestamps

SQLite databases

Property lists

Other important files

Recovering deleted SQLite records

Summary

6. iOS Forensic Tools

6. iOS Forensic Tools

Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit

Oxygen Forensic Suite 2014

Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer

Paraben iRecovery Stick

Open source or free methods

Summary

7. Understanding Android

7. Understanding Android

The Android model

Android security

Android file hierarchy

Android file system

Summary

8. Android Forensic Setup and Pre Data Extraction Techniques

8. Android Forensic Setup and Pre Data Extraction Techniques

A forensic environment setup

Screen lock bypassing techniques

Gaining root access

Summary

9. Android Data Extraction Techniques

9. Android Data Extraction Techniques

Imaging an Android Phone

Data extraction techniques

Summary

10. Android Data Recovery Techniques

10. Android Data Recovery Techniques

Data recovery

Summary

11. Android App Analysis and Overview of Forensic Tools

11. Android App Analysis and Overview of Forensic Tools

Android app analysis

Reverse engineering Android apps

Forensic tools overview

Cellebrite – UFED

MOBILedit

Autopsy

Summary

12. Windows Phone Forensics

12. Windows Phone Forensics

Windows Phone OS

Windows Phone file system

Data acquisition

Summary

13. BlackBerry Forensics

13. BlackBerry Forensics

BlackBerry OS

Data acquisition

BlackBerry analysis

Summary

Index

Index

Chapter 7. Understanding Android

Before we take a dive into the ocean of Android let us first spend some time discussing the evolution of Android or what we call The Android Story. Back in 2005, Google started investing money in start-up companies, which it thought would be profitable in the future. Android Inc., founded in 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White, was one such company acquired by Google that later turned out to be the best deal ever. During its first two years, Android Inc. operated under secrecy. It described itself as a company "making software for mobile phones". Rubin later stayed with Google to pioneer Android as an operating system that revolutionized the way mobile handsets operate. With this acquisition it was clear that Google was eyeing the mobile phone market. At Google, Rubin, along with his team, developed a powerful and flexible operating system built on a Linux kernel. There were speculations all over about what Google...

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