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iOS Forensics Cookbook

By : Bhanu Birani, Mayank Birani
Book Image

iOS Forensics Cookbook

By: Bhanu Birani, Mayank Birani

Overview of this book

Mobile device forensics is a branch of digital forensics that involves the recovery of evidence or data in a digital format from a device without affecting its integrity. With the growing popularity of iOS-based Apple devices, iOS forensics has developed immense importance. To cater to the need, this book deals with tasks such as the encryption and decryption of files, various ways to integrate techniques withsocial media, and ways to grab the user events and actions on the iOS app. Using practical examples, we’ll start with the analysis keychain and raw disk decryption, social media integration, and getting accustomed to analytics tools. You’ll also learn how to distribute the iOS apps without releasing them to Apple’s App Store. Moving on, the book covers test flights and hockey app integration, the crash reporting system, recovery tools, and their features. By the end of the book, using the aforementioned techniques, you will be able to successfully analyze iOS-based devices forensically.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Google Analytics


Google Analytics provides a service to developers that generates detailed statistics about the usage of the application in real time. Google Analytics can be used to track mobile apps as well as websites.

Getting ready

To develop a mini app using Google Analytics, start by creating a new project. Open Xcode and go to File | New | File, then navigate to iOS | Application | Single View Application. Within the popup, provide the product name AnalyticsSample.

How to do it...

  1. Before implementing Google Analytics, please make sure that you have a Google account. Go to http://www.google.co.in/analytics/ and sign in with your credentials.

  2. After login, you will see the home screen. At the top, you will see the admin button near the home button. Go to the admin page. There, you will see three columns. The first column is for accounts. It will currently be empty. Click on Accounts and you will see a Create new account option; click on it, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. On this screen...