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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By : Igor Mikhaylov
Book Image

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 physical dumps and backups parsing with AXIOM


The AXIOM program, developed by the Magnet Forensics company, is a popular tool that is used both for computer forensics and for mobile forensics. It has three components:

  • Magnet Acquire is a tool designed for data acquiring from hard disks, mobile devices, and other media (this tool was described in Chapter 2, Android Devices Acquisition)
  • AXIOM Process is a tool designed for analysis of devices’ images, files, and folders
  • AXIOM Examine is a tool in which the results of a performed analysis are displayed

The AXIOM program is able to extract data from Android mobile devices and analyze backups and physical dumps of such devices created earlier via Magnet Acquire or other tools.

In this chapter, we will describe the analysis of an Android mobile device via AXIOM.

Getting ready

On the website of the developer, you can request a trial version of AXIOM with the full product functionality for 30 days. You will receive an email to the email address...