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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 backups parsing with Belkasoft Evidence Center


The Belkasoft Evidence Center program has already been described in Chapter 2, Android Devices Acquisition. This program has functionality for data import from physical dumps and backups of Android mobile devices.

In this chapter, we will describe how to analyze a backup of an Android mobile device via Belkasoft Evidence Center.

How to do it…

  1. Double-click the icon of the program. When the program is started, create a new case. Click the New Case button.
  2. Fill in the following fields: Case name, Root folder, Case folder, Investigator, and Time zone. If necessary, you can add a more detailed description of the case in the Description window.
  3. After that, click the Create and open button located at the bottom of this window. In the next window, in the drop-down menu, you can select the category of files that will be displayed in it.
  4. Select the Android backup file (* .ab) category, select the Android device's backup file, and then click the Next...