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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

Android device acquisition with Belkasoft Acquisition Tool


Belkasoft Acquisition Tool is a universal utility that allows you to create forensic copies of hard disks and mobile devices and extract data from cloud storages. You can get the program by filling in a short form on the developer's website. After that, you will receive an email with a link to download this program.

Getting ready

Download the archive and unpack the program. Connect the examined device to the computer. Click on the BAT icon.

How to do it…

  1. In the main window of the program, click on the Mobile device icon.

The main window of the Belkasoft Acquisition Tool program

  1. In the next window, click on the Android icon.
  2. In the next window, you can view information about the connected device. Specify the path where the data extracted from the mobile device will be saved. Tick Copy system applications data, Copy SD card content, and Copy. apk files (application binaries) in order to specify what kind of data has to be extracted.

 The extraction...